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Cohort Outtake: 1961 Chevrolet Parkwood Wagon – Last Call for Wagon-Only Names (For a Few Years Anyway)
– Posted on September 5, 2018
Constantine Hannaher, who was at the Baltimore CC Meet-up and posted a raft of great pictures from the event that I haven't gotten to yet, also just posted this fine '61 Chevy Parkwood wagon. AS was common at the time,Chevrolet gave their station wagons different names than the rest of their car lines/models, but the last year for that was 1961 (until they came back in 1969, oddly enough. That means in 1962, this Parkwood would be just a Bel Air wagon.
Back then, I found it a bit confusing, especially since the wagon names seemed to change over the years (but then the sedans did too, to some extent). What was really confusing though was that in the last few years of this (1959-1960), the Impala-level wagons had different names, depending on whether they were 9 passenger (Kingswood) or 6 passenger (Nomad). At least the Kingswood got axed for 1961, and all the Impala-trim wagons were now Nomads.
Back to this Parkwood:
There were no less than four distinct (different model number) Parkwoods in '61: 6 cyl and V8 six passenger versions, and 6 cyl and V8 nine passenger versions. I can't tell whether this one is a 6 or 9 passenger version nor is it possible to tell if it's a six or V8, as the V8 wagons didn't get the requisite V emblem on the rear end. Odd. Usually Chevy was very good about letting us know if there was a V8 under the hood, as if we couldn't tell by the exhaust sound anyway.
Chevy usually splurged on slightly bigger tires for the wagons and convertibles (8.00×14 instead of 7.50×14), but I don't think they were offering wider (6″ wide) wheels yet. I know on later years they used 6″ wheels, but then they also offered even bigger tires a optional. I'm pretty sure the wheels were still 5″ wide in '61. But I can't tell whether the ones on this wagon has later 6″ wide wheels, or they might a wee bit wider yet. I'm going to guess they are 7″ wide, as the offset to the hubcaps seems deeper than what I remember. But I could be wrong…
In any case, it's a subtle but effective way to make this fine old wagon look a bit less under-tired/wheeled, as the stock ones are prone to being.
Jim Cavanaugh's finally fell in love with a '61 Impala here
And Dave Skinner wrote up a lower trim '61 Brookwood wagon here
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tonyola
Posted September 5, 2018 at 10:26 AM
About the axing of the specific wagon names after 1961 – not really true. Chevy was still using Brookwood, Townsman, and Kingswood for the big wagons in the 1970s.
gottacook
The names Kingswood Estate, Kingswood, Townsman, and Brookwood (from fanciest to plainest) were all instituted at the start of the 1969 model year.
Why on Earth do I know that?
chas108
Posted September 5, 2018 at 12:49 PM
I think Chevrolet became more aggressive with their TV marketing with the '69 model year. Remember this one?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wn6rKO35qE
I'd read that for a number of years before (maybe the mid-60s to 1968) a lot of Chevy's ad budget went to different projects with little accountability.
Here's a clever spot promoting the new locking steering column/shifter.
What's with "CA-price" in the ad you linked to? (gotta love the music from late-'60s commercials though).
BuzzDog
Speaking of the music, if you read the comments there's a lively debate over whether the singers were The Fifth Dimension, or a sound-alike group of studio musicians.
Also notice that there's no Corvair to be seen in the spot. By this time, Chevy was obviously winding down production in its final model year.
The guy arguing it's studio musicians seems to know of whence he speaks, knowing the ad agency and all. OTOH, it's definitely the 5th Dimension in another Chevy commercial, so maybe:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEZpbyyxQXo
The Corvair wasn't advertised in any way after 1967. You couldn't even get a brochure at the dealer by 1969; you had to request it by mail.
It was the 5th. Dimension.
Glen Campbell also did a lot of ads for Chevy around that time.
Chevy's advertising budget was huge back then, no need to cut corners. Plus, I am sure the 5th. Dimension's agents would have had a cow if Chevy was trying to fake them.
Stéphane Dumas
And to think they re-used the Nomad name for the lower trim Chevelle wagon later.
https://www.curbsideclassic.com/blog/cc-capsule-1969-chevelle-nomad-wagon-more-name-debasement-and-confusion/
Shorewood Slim
Yep. My folks had a 1970 (1969?) Kingswood. Thought I was dreaming it till you pointed it out. They drove from Wisconsin to Southern Mexico in 1969 in it! They didn't even know that it was a big deal til they tried it. It worked out OK, but they flew everywhere afterwards.
The shot from the front reminds me just how much I loved the band of tinting across the top of the glass, and how at one time it was a "luxury" and denoted usually that the car was a higher level of trim. Of course, it was ins some ways a needed option as the greenhouses were so much larger, and the windscreens (as in this Chev) soared upward almost into the roofline. I miss this type of visibility, especially with modern cars as some streetlights are almost impossible to see without craning your neck under the front edge of the windscreen. Visibility on most cars is awful now, contrasting well with the beautiful wagon here. Just lovely.
twoeightythree
Chevy got it just right with these. Love the color and the wheels too. One of my favorite wagons!
Somewhere, I have stashed some 35mm slides of my Aunt's 61 Parkwood. That was her first wagon, and last car with a three on the tree. I remember questioning why it said Parkwood on the outside, but the center of the steering wheel said Bel Air.
Took a camping trip to the UP with my aunt and mom in 64, with an Apache camping trailer in tow. Shortly after passing Grand Rapids, a tire went flat. Total complement in the car was two adult women and my 11 year old self. One guess who changed the tire while the other two sat and watched.
Once the flat had been replaced, I shared the back seat with the tire as we went off in search of a gas station to get the puncture plugged.
With the side excursion with the tire resolved, we were running late as we flew across the bridge. Mom was navigating and noticed a road shown on the map that went almost directly from St Ignace to Brimley, where we were to camp that night, cutting miles off the drive vs going the intended route toward Sault Saint Marie.
Surprise. Instead of a nice paved highway, it was a gravel road. Undaunted, my aunt put the spurs to the Chevy. Charging down a hill, we saw a wooden bridge over a creek. The bridge looked flat. It wasn't flat, it was arched. Chevy and Apache both went airborne. We landed with no apparent ill effects, so pressed on to Brimley.
Funny thing. Over the last year my aunt had that car, it developed a howl in the diff, so it yielded to a 65 Fury III wagon.
I agree that the lack of a rear emblem on wagons creates a conundrum. However, the engine is identified on the front emblem. Gold V at the bottom, like this wagon has, indicates 283. Crossed flags mean 348. A plain emblem denotes a six.
Always liked these subtle engine callouts. Pretty popular from the mid-'50's to the mid-'70's among most brands. Ford had the Thunderbird on the fender to denote optional V-8's and Chrysler products had various "V's", "Commando" emblems and CID callout hood ornaments.
What I find interesting is that all the manufacturers luxury brands (Cadillac, Lincoln, Imperial) never had any special callouts. Probably because for most years they only offered one engine.
Jeff ONeill
I grew up to some extent in a '61 Parkwood, my folk's first wagon. White with blue interior, 9-passenger, 283 with Powerglide. Loved sitting in the rearmost seat, facing backwards. They replaced it with a '68 Country Squire, and the dual facing rear seats weren't nearly as comfortable… though perhaps I'd just outgrown the way-back.
A very attractive wagon in probably my second-favorite 61 Chevy color. Uhhh, am I the only one who sees wheels painted a slightly different color than the rest of the car?
Ford did the same on wagon names with Ranch Wagon, Country Sedan and Country Squire. Speaking of Ford, I just now noticed how much the front of the 1963 Galaxie line resembles certain aspects of the front of the 61 Chevy. Although Ford did not adopt the grille and lights across the very top, the rest of the design looks more than a little similar, from the grille texture with the big central badge to the bumper with the slightly raised center section.
Hardboiled Eggs and Nuts
The wheels do appear to be a different shade than the car. I wish turquoise cars would be made again.
Carter Gorman
My '60s car is turquoise . . . except it really needs a new paint job. Not much paint left on the roof. Sigh.
That Chevy wagon sure is nice. It ought to be illegal not to like that Parkwood. Luv those hubcaps, too.
RetroStang Rick
You're not the only one who noticed Jim, but you always have an eye for color (perhaps better than anyone here when it comes to original paint colors on cars).
Those rims look to be the color of this other beauty of a '61 Chevy you wrote up a while back…
https://www.curbsideclassic.com/curbside-classics-american/curbside-classic-1961-chevrolet-impala-sport-coupe-wherein-the-author-meets-his-nemesis-and-finds-love/
Oops… Looks like Paul already provided a link to your article. :o)
> Ford did the same on wagon names with Ranch Wagon, Country Sedan and Country Squire
and Plymouth too – their full-sized wagons were called Suburban right up to the last one in 1977. "Suburban" was once a generic description used by many manufacturers for wagons built off of sedan or pickup truck platforms and bodies, but by '77 only two brands were still using that term. Some smart person at General Motors was watching the situation carefully, and when ten years went by with nobody but Chevrolet using that moniker GM trademarked "Suburban" and now has exclusive rights to the name. Willys was able to procure exclusive rights to "Jeep" for the same reason even though Ford used to build jeeps too, something FCA is very thankful for today.
My eyes must be losing it, as I don't see them being a different color. I strongly suspect the wheels were repainted to match the body, since they are wider (at least the rear one is) than stock, and the body looks like it might be original, or an older repaint. And that the match may not be quite perfect, but not a whole different color. Here's a closer look:
Not to mention lighting angle could be at play here with a cylindrical shape vs a flatter shape…. you may be right here. The older vs newer paint thing you cited is more likely the cause though.
The effect shows up more in the other shot. It could certainly be an illusion from lighting. Or perhaps the wheels were painted from a different paiint batch, or . . .
Moparlee
I love that Demon (and the Cutlass) photo-bombing the first shot. The lighting for those first two photos is nice, sometimes a non sunny day is best for shooting cars. The sun creates glare and shadows that are hard to work around.
Suburban America's desired and coveted Status Symbol of the 1950's and 1960's AKA Ford Country Sedan.
Krautwursten
I can't even think of another car with the word Sedan in the name, yet the only car with Sedan in the name isn't even a sedan. What a confusing world we live in …
'48-'50 Packard Station Sedan, a wagon, and again in 1957 with the Clipper Country Sedan (which was neither a sedan nor really a Packard).
As for cars with "sedan" in the name, Sedan de Ville.
Holden used to call their wagons "Station Sedan" in the fifties. Even said so on them.
Stanislav Alexeyev
Strangely enough, I find this wagon better looking than the notchbacks from the same model year. IMHO, the design looks cleaner & less cluttered this way; even the gullwing-y thing on the tail end, which is one of my problems with '59-'61 Chevys, looks just like a part of the decorative crease that encircles the entire body, much like on the Corvair, but more fancy – not some kind of a "duck tail" style spoiler, or a vestige of the shaved off tailfins – which it really is, and the rear styling on the sedans & coupes makes it all too obvious. I also prefer quad taillights of the lower trim levels to the six tail lamps on the Impala. Single-tone paint scheme and dog dish hubcaps just accentuate the clean, unadorned look. And the Brookwood from Dave Skinner's post seems too much of a plain Jane in comparison. Without the chrome molding, the crease on the body sides looks out of place to me.
Paul Mittermaier
Pontiac had Safari well into the '70's. Buick had the Estate Wagon. Olds had the Vista Cruiser. Rambler used the Cross Country moniker long before Volvo adopted it!
We had a '61 Brookwood, hearing aid beige, 283 PG bought used in '63. The '65 that replaced it had 327 and AC, we towed a 20 ft. Shasta travel trailer with this wagon, made the annual Disneyland trip from Portland much nicer.
My family had a 58 Brookwood (an uncle owned a 58 Nomad), that was a sort of pastel green and white two-tone. My mother grew to hate that car so much that she would forbid my father to ever buy another Chevy as the family car.
Mon hated the Brookwood. She liked the well equipped '65 Impala wagon, though.
My Dad's '66 Impala (hardtop fastback coupe) had those wheel covers. I always liked them.
1961 was also the 1st model year when all the full-sized Chevy wagons were 4 doors. In 1960 you could still get a Brookwood with 2 or 4 doors and with 6 or V8 engine.
Ford would offer a 2 or 4 door full-sized wagon ( the Ranch Wagon) for 1961 after which it was dropped.
Plymouth was like Ford in that 1961 would be the last year for the two-door wagon.
And the 61 Plymouth 2 door wagon doesn't look very happy about it!
rudiger
A 1961 Plymouth Fury would have made a fine Christine.
I'm especially amused at wagons getting a different name just because they had a 3rd row seat. Even though that didn't last much beyond 1960, the "9 passenger" wagons were still considered a separate model from the "6 passenger" versions of the same car for many years to come in Detroit. I don't know when this practice stopped, but by the time of the Taurus wagon the 3rd row seat was just another option.
I'm trying to think what the last time a wagon had a completely separate model name from the sedans or other body styles. I guess it still occurs on some lifted AWD models like the Outback.
Johnster
I believe that the last time a wagon had a completely separate model name from the sedans was the 1990 Buick Estate Wagon. Buick had combined their previous Electra Estate Wagon and LeSabre Estate Wagon lines into a single station wagon model that that year. The following year they replaced the Estate Wagon with the Roadmaster Estate Wagon. (The only model bearing the Roadmaster name that year.) It was joined by the Roadmaster sedan for the 1992 model year.
Likewise the Pontiac Safari which, as with the Estate Wagon, lasted several years after the Parisienne sedans were discontinued. However, wagons that no longer have a sedan (or other body style) counterpart are a different thing than those that do but use a completely different name. The Pontiac was originally known as Grand Safari though, a name not shared with the Bonneville sedan it was based on.
Grand Safari and Safari were the designations for the clamshell-tailgate Pontiac wagons of 1971-76. From 1959 to 1970, if you wanted a full-size wagon you had your choice of Bonneville or Catalina, joined by the in-between Executive wagon in 1967. Some of these wagons had Safari added to their names (on the tailgate) during some of those model years; for example, my family's '67 Executive wagon was an Executive Safari but the Bonneville and Catalina wagons that year were not Safaris; in 1965 both the Bonneville and Catalina wagons were Safaris.
After GM/Chevrolet denied that unique names for wagons mattered one could also buy in America:
Buick Sport Wagon
Mercury Montego Villager
Mercury Cougar Villager
Mercury Colony Park
Ford Fairmont Squire
Ford Pinto Squire
And here is a great, but very rare, wagon name: Chevrolet Yeoman.
Ed Stembridge
Don't forget the 1976-only Chevy Vega Nomad! (c:
I didn't notice if anyone else mentioned this, but all Vega wagons had a unique name, Kammback.
Not every Town & Country is a wagon; there was also a T&C convertible from 1983-'86.
Not only that, from the time production restarted after WWII until 1950, the T&C was offered as a sedan, hardtop and convertible (however, not all of those body styles were offered in all of those years). Then a hardtop and convertible T&C appeared for the 1968 and 1969 model years.
And finally, I could see one maintaining that the 1990 – 2016 T&Cs were not true wagons, but instead vans. Personally, I was a bit disappointed when FiatChrysler abandoned the name in favor of "Pacifica."
Technically "Ford Pinto Squire" is the same as "Audi A6 Avant". It should only count for the last call if the name of the car it's based on doesn't even appear in the name of the wagon.
Have we come up with a non-American example yet, or is this a distinctively American thing?
I mentioned the Subaru Outback earlier which is a wagon version of the Legacy, albeit with more alterations than what Chevy had between sedan and wagon. Some other lifted wagons were also like this, though all the others I can think of were also available in non-lifted versions that had the same name as the corresponding sedan.
The Outback is an interesting example. It was first sold as the "Legscy Outback," then spun off as its own model to appeal to SUV buyers. It's been written that this move saved Subaru, or at least its North American sales organization, which saw sales of its sedans and wagons tank when buyers started switching to SUVs en masse during the 1990s.
Curiously and perhaps confusingly, Subaru continued offering a Legacy wagon – sans raised body and lower cladding – until 2007 (at least in the US; I'm not sure about other markets). And another curiosity was an Outback sedan, which was offered for a year or two in the late 1990s.
But perhaps Subaru knew what it was doing and was playing the long game, because the Outback was eventually reclassified as a "truck," making it easier for Subaru to meet the convoluted mess of Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) rules in the US.
justy baum
It was never called a Legacy Outback in the country from whence that second name came, a legacy of the fact that the main veterans support organisation here is Legacy, and Subaru would be taking a liberty to call a car a Legacy, so they called it a Liberty.
They probably called the plastic-clad one a Subaru Outback from launch because they had a headache.
George Ferencz
I'm a diehard **Ford** wagon guy, but that's a very fetching Chevy wagon today. Agreed at how the day's stock wheel/tire combos look puny now, and that this wagon's seem happily beefier.
Two-and-a-half-minute singin' and swinging' Dinah Shore commercial here; the '61 Biscayne seems close to our color, but perhaps more bluish: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ef9nv76UuFQ
Love the styling of the 61 Chevys, in my opinion the best of the 59-64 model years, which all used the same underpinnings.
The '61 is definitely one of my favorite Chevys. The only GM car that bested it was the Pontiac.
Agree with 210delray.
(and this coming from a "Mopar Man" for this time period!)
That '61 has the highly sought after 'wagon wheels', extra wide stock steel wheels with a lot of offset. Not noticeable on the higher trim models, full wheel covers hide them. They are also used on cars equipped with the 409.
Those wheels go a long way to getting the Chevy to look more like a Wide-Track Pontiac.
I've looked at the wheels closely with a zoom in, and I'm pretty sure the front is likely the stock 6″ wide wheel, but the rear is a wider one, probably a 7″. There's a decided difference in the two "drops", and the rear one just looks too wide for the stock wheel.
Sharp eyes, Paul!
After several "zoom ins" in my i-phone, wearing my strongest magnification reading glasses, I so agree with your hypothesis.
(I'm enjoying my early retirement; I have nothing else better to do).
Good catch! 'Wagon Wheels' were 14 X 6, maybe the rears are aftermarket.
Here's more on the subject:
http://www.southeastchevyparts.com/1955-1964-Original-Chevy-Wheel-Identification-_b_22.html
channaher
Interesting link! I'm looking at my original photograph, and my contribution to this discussion is that the two drops on the rear wheel are much more similar in width than on the front wheel. Also, nubs (front) vs. no nubs (rear). What is the possibility that the rear wheel is still 6″ but the late-1963 to 1964 style?
having spent some time looking at these closely, I'm convinced the rears are wider. Makes sense that the rears are a bit different in or der to also be wider. If it were the stock 6′ wide wheels, they fronts and rears would undoubtedly look the same, eh?
it's quite common to put on a slightly wider rear wheel, as it gives an understated bit of a muscular look.
My recycling yard (used to be called "junk yard") friend often told me that the "Wagon Wheels" were highly sought after by those who knew better.
polistra
In the '50s, both wagons and hardtops always got special names. Nobody ever gave a unique name to a plain four-door sedan. (With the accidental exception of Dodge's "Meadowbrook Special" in '53.)
This seems backwards in terms of marketing. Hardtops and (all-steel) wagons were hot sellers as soon as they were introduced. Sedans were the group that should have needed help from special names and slogans.
Bajan Dave
I always thought Kingswood was strictly a Holden name; didn't know it was used in the US as well.
Holden had a habit of dusting off old GM names from other countries, after they went through their Aboriginal naming phase. Sunbird (Torana 4), Starfire (engine)…
Okay, it's in Park, but where's the Wood? Should have called it the NoWood!
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Eric Rosenbloom, March 3, 2005
[Also see "Eric Rosenbloom Distortions - LI Offshore Wind Initiative"]
Mark Diesendorf wrote an article for Australia's "On Line Opinion" attacking critics of industrial wind power [click here]. It sparked a lively discussion [click here], to which he himself reiterated his views as follows.
I spoke up about wind power because I see so much dishonest and misleading propaganda being disseminated by anti–wind power campaigners. Here I summarise their tactics, all demonstrated in the above comments on my article:
1. They claim that they are not opposed to wind power in general, but only wind farms at particular sites. But, in practice, they oppose all proposals for grid-connected wind farms.
2. Many of them present themselves as environmentalists or conservationists, while ignoring or denying the world's principal environmental threat, namely the human-induced greenhouse effect, and in particular that coal-fired electricity is the biggest contributor to greenhouse pollution.
3. They complain about the subsidies to wind power, while ignoring the much bigger subsidies to the production and use of fossil fuels.
4. They complain of the profits of the wind industry, while ignoring those of the coal industry which are millions of times larger. Unless anti–wind power campaigners are willing to state publicly that they are opposed to the whole capitalist system, they stand open to the charge of hypocrisy in criticising the wind industry for trying to make a profit.
5. They claim incorrectly that, as an 'intermittent' energy source, wind power cannot substitute for coal power and therefore can neither reduce carbon dioxide emissions nor contribute to meeting peak load. Refuted [below].
6. They create the false impression that wind power has huge adverse environmental impacts, by picking out rare cases and presenting them as if they were typical. Thus they mislead without actually lying. Bird and bat casualties and noise are generally treated in this way.
7. They falsely label those who speak up against their misleading arguments as industry office-bearers, employees or spruikers. I have already refuted the statement that I was formerly President of the Australian Wind Energy Association, in a previous posting.
8. They denigrate the qualifications and expertise of those who disagree with them.
So, I have to ask, if anti-wind campaigners really have a strong case, why do they use such dubious tactics?
The myth that wind needs back-up from coal
Consider the mantra parroted by anti-wind farm campaigners, that coal-fired power stations have to be kept running all the time to back-up wind. The research by the former CSIRO-ANU wind energy research group (e.g. Brian Martin & Mark Diesendorf, Electrical Power & Energy Systems, vol. 4, pp.155-161) and the work of the British researcher, Dr Michael Grubb (e.g. Energy Policy, vol. 16, pp.594-607) among others showed that wind power substitutes for base-load power stations. In most of Australia, these are coal-fired.
About 2000 MW of wind power can substitute for 660 MW of coal power. This means that an existing coal unit can be retired or a proposed new coal unit can be deferred or cancelled. Thus wind power has economic value in saving capital as well as fuel.
To maintain the reliability of the generating system in meeting peak demand, some additional peak-load plant (e.g. gas turbines) is required. Typically it would require one-quarter to one-third of the wind power capacity, depending on the geographic dispersion of wind farms.
For wind energy penetrations of less than about 20% of total generation on the grid, this additional peak-load plant does not run frequently and its capital cost is low. Therefore, it is like reliability insurance with a low premium. It reduces only slightly the large greenhouse benefits that wind power achieves by substituting for coal.
I'm aware that the international anti-wind campaign likes to cite a few recent studies that fail to obtain the correct results. In general these studies have made elementary mistakes resulting from their failure to read or understand the earlier published literature.
Even without knowledge of the mathematical and computer models used to obtain the correct results, a little reflection allows anyone to understand the absurdity of the mantra that coal-fired power stations have to back up wind. The power output of many coal-fired stations CANNOT be ramped up and down to follow the variations in wind power. However, peak-load plant can respond quickly enough to do that job.
The forum limits size and frequency of posts, so here is my complete response:
Yes, indeed, thank you, Mark, for refocusing the discussion. The numbers below correspond to those in your recent post.
1. I agree that many such statements are disingenuous. In fact, however, it is true, especially in areas of special beauty. In turn, developers are typically more disingenuous, claiming their sensitive concern for proper siting.
2. While some people deny human contribution to global warming, the strongest argument against large-scale wind power is their minuscule potential contribution to mitigation. That coal-fired electricity is the biggest contributor to greenhouse pollution is a misstatement -- coal is the biggest source in electricity generation, but electricity generation is the source of only a fraction of our greenhouse gas emissions.
3. Subsidies need not be an issue, if wind power actually delivered substantial electricity in return. And the wrongness of subsidies for fossil fuels doesn't make subsidies to wind right; it just underscores the possibility that these subsidies are misdirected as well.
4. The issue of profits is raised because of the small benefit and the sacrifice of rural and undeveloped land. Profits, along with tax sheltering, are criticized because they appear to be based primarily on exploitation and piracy.
5. Refuted after these numbered points.
6. As wind facilities are proposed in the mountains of the eastern U.S., for example, where birds and bats are indeed killed, the latter in shockingly large numbers, by existing turbines, it is right to consider that similarly sited turbines will show similar results. Most developers, as Diesendorf does, instead simply deny it's a problem. Because noise affects people to various degrees, the industry ignores the growing testimony of another very real problem in the confidence that "most" people get used to it. And there are other environmental problems, as with any industrial complex.
7. The fact is that most pro-wind arguments are right out of the industry's sales brochures and, as here, never backed by data from actual experience. (His protestation about a connection with the Australian Wind Energy Association is amusing; it states at www.ies.unsw.edu.au/about/staff/mark.htm that he was co-founder and president of the Australasian Wind Energy Association.)
8. Nobody needs to give the pro-wind camp lessons on denigrating those who disagree with them.
Now to the problem of a highly variable energy source -- that responds to the wind rather than consumer demand -- on the grid. Diesendorf's picture is obviously simplistic, because although 2000 MW of wind capacity may produce an average 660 MW of power over a year, its output at any moment may be anywhere from 0 to 1600 or so MW. The output would equal 660 MW or more only about a third of the time, and those times will not always (perhaps rarely) correspond to a need on the grid. (The west Danish grid operator, Eltra, had to export 84% of its wind-produced electricity in 2003.)
"Wind Report 2004" from the German grid manager Eon Netz describes the limitations and problems of large amounts of wind power on the grid (6250 MW in their case). They point out that back-up capacity must be maintained for the maximum infeed from the wind plant, which they found to be 80% of its nominal capacity. In addition, because of the unpredictability of wind, new reserve capacity must be built equal to 50-60% of the wind plant capacity.
Wind may indeed allow the ramping down of coal-burning plants when the wind is up. On the other hand, they have to be ramped back up when the wind slows (or is too high). This is not the most efficient way to run a coal plant, and many analysts think that it would actually increase emissions. In any case, it adds to the cost of maintaining the plant, as The Irish National Grid has recognized ("Impact of Wind Power Generation In Ireland on the Operation of Conventional Plant and the Economic Implications", February 2004). The Irish study, with generous assumptions about the contribution of wind power and ignoring short-term intermittency, also projects a diminishing benefit with more "penetration", leveling off a little above 10% penetration at less than 5% reduction in nonwind plant. Even at 10% penetration, the bulk (around 75%) of the wind plant is excess capacity. Additional wind plant is simply more excess on the system.
The Irish study projects from their actual experience, and the German report describes their actual experience. Errors in modeling can't be argued here, because they deal with facts.
Diesendorf creates a paper tiger out of some aspects of opposition and even then has trouble tearing it to shreds. Where is all the bright and shining evidence of the wonders of wind power? If pro-wind campaigners had such evidence, they would not have to resort to these kinds of attacks. They would simply show how large-scale wind development has done so much in countries like Denmark, Germany, and Spain, and we would be laughed out of the room. But they don't, apparently because they can't.
That is why environmentalists who are truly interested in reducing fossil fuel use, not to mention preserving landscapes and wild habitats, should cast a cold eye on the claims of industrial wind power.
Eric Rosenbloom is a science editor and writer living in Vermont.
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This is just a quick, general and preliminary comment on the development of the doctrine of essential facilities. After reading some papers (some of them also available in the ssrn here), I have a feeling that both IP and Competition Lawyers are in favour of a more restrictive application of the "essential facilities" doctrine to intellectual property.
Essential facilities has been heaviliy criticized. Some lawyers considered that when there is a competition case involving IP, a new approach must be created as essential facilities deal primarily with tangible property.
My impression is, however, that these "new approaches" attempts to put a more strict treshold when competition law inetervenes intellectual property. I wonder if in the future, when molecular manufacturing is available -- a stricter approach would still be relevant. In my opinion, when more and more tangible goods are transformable into information, there will be more demand towards lowering the standards of IP protection.
It would be interesting to see how competition law doctrines operates in the age of molecular manufacturing. The tendency towards differentiating between competition law test applicable to tangible property and competition law test applicable to intangible property is something positive. However, the trends that everything is transformable into information these days must also be put into consideration. Raising the threshold of IP protection in a world where tangible goods are nothing but information may seriously jeoperdize the future economy.


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Beer and wine are great options. And not that we'll ever get bored of drinking wine of the red, white and light pink variety, blue wine is now a thing. And it tastes just like sweet white wine. Cheers to that.
It's not surprising this genius wine innovation comes from a group of 20-somethings in Spain at a company called Gik. They had no background in wine making at all. It hasn't hit the US yet, but you can put money on it making its way over here soon.
The color comes from indigo and anthocyanin, which is found in the grape skin, and a non-caloric sweetener. According to its site, Gik doesn't add any sugar to their wine. The wine itself is actually a blend of both red and white wine made with grapes from Spanish and French vineyards.
Red, white or blue, wine is still wine.
Do you think it stains your teeth blue?
Imagine having blue wine in your Independence Day BBQ spread.
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A Stacked Deck Against the Champions of Life
"This is a case of shooting the proverbial messenger who had the courage to document the business model of the nation's number one abortion vendor. It was clear during the hearing that Planned Parenthood did harvest and sell infant body parts. What a miscarriage of justice to punish those who documented the disgusting practices." Kristen Hawkins~
A San Francisco jury has found that undercover journalists David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt are liable for damages to Planned Parenthood. The two went undercover to show the world that PP was selling unborn children's body parts for profit.
Daleiden and Merritt planned to base their defense on the Bill of Rights. But the presiding judge prohibited a first amendment defense.
"Unfortunately, we couldn't get Judge Orrick to back off from his insistence that the jury be instructed that the First Amendment … does not state any kind of defense to the charges in this case," said Thomas Brejcha, founder of the Thomas More Society, in an update on the case last week.
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"We tried to get him recused from this case several times a couple of years ago, and each time he or his peers in the federal judicial system looked the other way and kept him on, and Judge Orrick basically predetermined the outcome of this case from the very beginning of the trial."
The Daleiden/Merritt case is about punishing those who would speak the truth about what Planned Parenthood's henchmen and women did (and may still do) to turn a few extra bucks. It's about silencing any others who may dare to speak truth about what happens behind the doors of PP.
For Planned Parenthood, it's also about trying to reverse a public relations disaster–the truth.
And it's about money.
Of course, Daleiden and Merritt's attorneys plan an appeal.
In the meantime, the Little Sisters of the Poor and 30 other religious non-profit organizations await a ruling from the US Supreme Court regarding their exemption from Obamacare requirements that they provide contraception and abortion for those whom they employ.
That despite an HHS rule that exempts them from the Obamacare mandate.
Yet Obamacare excluded some corporations and government entities (the United States military, VISA, Chevron, and Pepsi, and Exxon). Will those entities provide those services out of their own surpluses–or will the employees pay them out of pocket?
This fight is clearly not about universal coverage.
Maybe these fights over the filming of truth and the sanctity of life are not just about money.
Maybe they're not just about abortion. Maybe they're also about power.
J.D. Mullane says it's not the first time Pennsylvania's Attorney General Josh Shapiro (one of only two AG's pursuing the Little Sisters) has gone after a "little guy."
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The Little Sisters of the Poor run nursing homes for abandoned elderly in poverty. They care for those with no one else to care for them at the end of their lives. At the same time, they stand up for the smallest humans at the beginning of life.
In these court cases, religious and journalistic freedom sit in the crosshairs of a weapon aimed at the champions of life–to eradicate their voices and silent witness–to take away their freedom to speak and our freedom to know.
The stakes are high. Get into the game. It's the only way to overcome a stacked deck.
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Investigation is still under way into the cause of Wednesday's four-alarm fire at Tyler Perry Studios in southwest Atlanta. The blaze, which sparked late Tuesday evening and was contained by firefighters to one building on the , caused no reported injuries, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Good Deeds director Tyler Perry, who was reportedly at the 60-acre complex at the time of the fire, has not yet commented.
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"Democrats…opposing securing the border." Is this for real?
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"The SR1.5 report represents a very significant departure from previous IPCC reports in the direction of increased alarm regarding global warming, particularly as compared with the Fifth Assessment. No rigorous justification for this departure has been provided.
In reality, since the Fifth Assessment considerable evidence has accumulated suggesting that global warming is more of a long-term threat than a planetary emergency. This evidence consists mainly of observational results suggesting lower climate sensitivity (i.e. less warming in response to any given increase in greenhouse gas concentrations) and results indicating a greater contribution from natural variability to explaining observed global temperature trends. The IPCC has not passed on this evidence to policymakers in its SR1.5 report.
The report has also not passed on to policymakers some very important information published by climate modellers since the last IPCC assessment report regarding the empirical tuning of climate models to achieve desired results. The failure of previous IPCC reports to document the models' tuning procedures has been described by these modellers as a 'lack of transparency'. The projections of future warming published by the IPCC are completely dependent on the reliability of these models.
In view of these deficiencies, the SR1.5 report does not merit being regarded by policymakers as a scientifically rigorous document. There is much recent scientific evidence, not referred to in the report, to support a more considered mitigation strategy than the extreme measures proposed in the report.


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'We Were Flying Blind': A Doctor's Account of a Woman's J&J Vaccine-Related Blood Clot Case
An 18-year-old woman was stricken with severe headaches, vomiting, seizures, confusion and weakness in one arm early this month, strokelike symptoms that doctors at a Nevada hospital were shocked to see in someone so young. Scans found several large blood clots blocking veins that drain blood from the brain, a condition that can disable or kill a patient. Sign up for The Morning newsletter from the New York Times Doctors performed a procedure to suction huge clots from her brain, only to find that new ones had formed. The patient is one of six women ages 18 to 48 who developed clots in the brain within two weeks of receiving the Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccine. One died, and their devastating cases led U.S. health officials to recommend Tuesday that use of the vaccine be paused. Two more cases have been added since then: one involving a man who was vaccinated during the company's clinical trials and another involving a woman who received the vaccine after it had been authorized for general use. As in several of the original cases, the young woman in Nevada was initially treated with heparin, a standard blood-thinner that experts have since learned may actually worsen the rare clotting disorder that has affected small numbers of people who received the Johnson & Johnson or AstraZeneca vaccines in several countries. But until the last few weeks, doctors around the world had little information about the condition, and the doctors in Nevada did not recognize it immediately. "We were flying blind, based on reports from Europe and the U.K. hematological society," said Dr. Brian Lipman, an infectious-disease specialist who helped care for the Nevada patient at Dignity Health St. Rose Dominican Hospital, Siena Campus, in Henderson. The U.S. decision to call for suspension of the use of the vaccine was intended to give officials time to learn more about the rare disorder causing the clots, to assess whether it is linked to the vaccine and to inform doctors and patients about how to recognize symptoms and treat the condition. The pause may last until at least next Friday, when expert advisers to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are scheduled to meet to review the data and decide whether to resume using the vaccine. Dr. Rochelle Walensky, the director of the CDC, and other top U.S. health officials sought Friday to reassure the public that the pause, now extended more than a week, was a reasonable safeguard to assess risk. They also emphasized that overall, the Johnson & Johnson vaccine and the other vaccines in use in the United States were safe, given how many millions of Americans had gotten their shots without concern. But with the world staggered by a relentless epidemic, even temporarily stopping the use of a highly effective vaccine, which many countries had planned to deploy, is a fraught decision. Public health experts fear that the move sends a message that will erode trust globally even if the vaccine is reinstated and that huge numbers of people who could have been immunized will die needlessly from COVID-19 because they or their governments rejected the company's vaccine. The United States, where Johnson & Johnson provided only about 5% of the COVID vaccine supply, can afford the suspension: It has plenty of other vaccine doses from Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech to fill the gap. Other countries do not. And many nations have also stopped or limited the use of another effective vaccine, the one made by AstraZeneca, because it, too, has been linked to a similar rare clotting disorder. About 7.4 million Americans have received the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, and so far, only eight cases of the clotting problem have been reported, seven of them in women. In Europe, Britain, and three other countries, 222 cases have been reported, mostly in women under 60 — of 34 million people who have received the AstraZeneca vaccine. Several countries have now limited its use to older adults because so many cases have involved younger people. Researchers suspect that in these rare cases, the vaccine causes an intense reaction by the patient's immune system, which churns out antibodies that activate platelets, a blood component needed for clotting. An unusual syndrome results, with extensive clotting that leaves the patient with low platelet levels and a tendency to bleed at the same time. Why this occurs in some people, many of them younger women, is not known, and experts say that they have so far been unable to identify traits or underlying conditions that may make some people susceptible. In a statement issued Wednesday, Johnson & Johnson said: "The safety and well-being of the people who use our products is our number one priority, and we strongly support awareness of the signs and symptoms of this extremely rare event to ensure the correct diagnosis, appropriate treatment and expedited reporting by health care professionals. We continue to believe in the positive benefit-risk profile of our vaccine." The company also said, in a letter published Friday in The New England Journal of Medicine, that no causal link had been established between its vaccine and the clotting disorder. To some critics, it makes no sense to hobble a global vaccination campaign during a pandemic just because of a few cases of a rare disorder. But while rare side effects may be tolerated as the price we must pay for some drugs or vaccines, even the rarest ones are difficult to accept if they are severe and unpredictable — like blood clots in the brain, especially in young, healthy people. "This is a devastating complication," Dr. Anthony Fauci, the chief medical adviser for the pandemic in the Biden administration, said in an interview. He added: "One woman died, three are in the hospital, one in intensive care. Even though the numbers are small, it is a devastating complication, so I believe — I didn't make the decision — I believe their rationale, at least from what they communicated to me, is that they wanted to call a quick pause to see, to alert people. Sometimes this starts with minor symptoms, like a little abdominal discomfort, and then all of a sudden they wind up having a stroke." He also said, "Maybe there are a lot more people out there we're not noticing, because of the spectrum of the disease." Informing doctors and the public of the symptoms — severe headaches, shortness of breath, leg or abdominal pain — could help identify more cases. Another reason for the pause, Fauci said, is to let doctors know that the drug heparin, a standard treatment for blood clots, should not be given to these patients, "because heparin in this circumstance can make things worse." It is not known whether the heparin initially given to some of the patients exacerbated their condition. Experts are recommending the use of other blood thinners, which patients urgently need, because their blood clots keep growing, and new ones keep forming. Doctors in Europe who treated recipients of the AstraZeneca vaccine who had a similar condition said it could worsen rapidly. "The real issue is how long they take to make up their mind about what they're going to do," Fauci said of the CDC's advisory panel. "The rest of the world is watching this, and J&J is hopefully going to be an important part of the worldwide response, as is AstraZeneca." He added, "You don't want to rush them, but I hope they make up their minds in a reasonable amount of time." Another of the first six patients with the clotting condition was a healthy 48-year-old woman who went to an emergency room in Nebraska because she had felt ill with abdominal pain for three days. Her case was described in a letter to the editor of The New England Journal of Medicine published Wednesday. Her platelet count was low, and other blood tests were also abnormal. A CT scan found extensive blood clots in veins in her abdomen. She began having headaches, and another scan found clots in her brain. She was given heparin. More clots developed, and she had a hemorrhagic stroke. Doctors then learned that she had received the Johnson & Johnson vaccine two weeks before. They stopped the heparin and gave her a different blood thinner, along with intravenous immune globulin, a treatment also recommended for the clotting disorder. Her platelet count increased, but, the doctors wrote, "The patient remained critically ill at the time of this report." The young woman in Nevada was fighting for her life and had to be placed on a ventilator, according to Lipman. He said he was speaking independently and not as a representative of the hospital. The patient's family declined a request for an interview. Lipman said that as the team had studied her blood samples, the pieces began to fall into place, and they realized that she appeared to have the same problem that they knew had been occurring in Britain and Europe after patients received the AstraZeneca vaccine, mostly in young women. They switched from heparin to another blood thinner and began following guidance provided by doctors in Britain who had treated AstraZeneca recipients with a similar disorder. Hoping for more information about the condition and any possible connection to the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, Lipman called an emergency number at the Food and Drug Administration. It was a weekend, and he said the person who answered told him that no one was available to help and that the line had to be kept open for emergencies. "I thought this was an emergency," Lipman said. "She hung up on me." He called back, to ask how to reach Janssen, which makes the Johnson & Johnson vaccine. That information was not available, and he said the person who answered had also told him that the FDA could not provide advice on patient care. An FDA spokesperson, Stephanie Caccomo, said in an email, "We'll look into this further to ensure physicians calling FDA for assistance receive the help they are seeking." Lipman said that the pharmacist at his hospital had submitted a report online to the CDC in early April but that the agency had not contacted him to ask about the case until this week. The agency declined to comment on whether it had communicated with Lipman, a spokesperson, Kristen Nordlund, said by email. At a meeting Wednesday of a CDC advisory panel, Johnson & Johnson and Dr. Tom Shimabukuro, a safety expert at the agency, both presented data about the young woman in Nevada. After the meeting, Nevada officials issued a statement saying the meeting was the first time they had learned of a case in their state — they had previously told the public that no cases had been reported — and they were asking "federal partners" why the state had not been informed. At the Nevada hospital, an interventional radiologist passed a tube through blood vessels and on into the young woman's brain and used a device to suction out the blood clots. More clots formed later, and he performed the procedure again. But the condition causes more than clots: The patient, like others, also had a brain hemorrhage. She was transferred to a larger hospital, where she is still on a ventilator, Lipman said. Her prognosis is uncertain, he said, adding, "Her life, not just her life, her entire family's life, has been transformed." This article originally appeared in The New York Times. © 2021 The New York Times Company
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Islamic State in Afghanistan: Between a Rock and a Hard Place
November 24,2019 | Samiullah Doorandesh
It was undoubtedly a major strategic blunder of ISIS to opt Afghanistan as their base for recruitment and recuperation. They were never welcomed here. The US forces bombed them from the skies and simultaneously, the Afghan security forces and local uprising groups dealt them on the ground and the Taliban too challenged them on the battlefield and defied their version of Islam.
"We have eliminated Daesh" the Afghan President Ashraf Ghani boasted by declaring victory over Islamic State in Nangarhar, eastern Afghanistan. President Ashraf Ghani visited Nangarhar on Tuesday, to celebrate the occasion by expressing gratitude to the tribal elders for their sacrifices and resistance, paid tribute to the fallen soldiers and members of the local uprising groups who valiantly stood against the atrocious rule of Daesh and congratulated the nation for incapacitating, if not eliminating, the terror group.
The celebrations were owing to the surrender of 243 demoralized ISIS fighters who surrendered along with their families, including many children and women, to the Afghan government as a consequence of the anti-ISIS operations since the declaration of Islamic State in Khorasan Province (ISKP) in 2015. Interestingly, the majority of the surrendered fighters belonged to Pakistan, followed by Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Iran, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, and Maldives. The miscalculated gambit of the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) to solidify its lost base and prolong its outreach from Afghanistan seems leading to imminent failure.
The Islamic State in Khorasan Province was declared by the spokesperson of ISIL, Abu Muhammad al-Adnani, in January 2015 which encompassed the territories of Pakistan, Afghanistan, and parts of Central Asia—intending to revive the historical Khorasan region. ISIL was eyeing the contested and ungoverned territories in Afghanistan but initially, the Afghan government refuted ISIL's declaration of ISKP, however, they were helpless when they announced their ghastly arrival on the scene with a gruesome suicide blast in Jalalabad, killing 35 people and wounding 100, queued to collect their wages. The new terror group instantly secured the allegiances from the disgruntled and opportunistic commanders of Pakistani Taliban and individuals from the tribal areas of Pakistan formerly known as FATA. In fact, the first governor of ISKP was the former commander of the Pakistani Taliban in the Orakzai agency, Hafiz Saeed, a native Pakistani. According to John Nicholson, "70 percent of ISKP members were former members of Pakistani Taliban who were driven to Afghanistan by the military operations in FATA." The group continued its terrorist attacks unabatedly with no regard for human lives. According to Global Terrorism Index, ISKP surpassed the Taliban in conducting the worst terrorist attacks in 2017, with the Zanbaq Square in Kabul and Sehwan in Sindh, Pakistan, being the most ferocious, killing 93 and 91 people respectively. In 2018, the terror group continued to inflict significant casualties. In Dashte Barchi, Kabul, a suicide bomber killed 70 people at the voting registration center only to be followed later with the carnage of 56 religious scholars celebrating the birth of Prophet Muhammad.
Since the inception of ISKP, the Afghan civilians especially those living in Achin, the first capital and stronghold of ISKP and other districts of Nangarhar, have met a fate of misery and unimaginable agony. Life under their rule was a nightmare in reality, characterized by forced marriages, torture, and closure of schools, the enforced inclusion of teenagers in their fighting ranks and subsequent displacement of tens of thousands of families.
Despite the horrible damages inflicted on Afghan civilians the ISKP could not sustain any popular legitimacy even by coercion let alone securing it through their so-called puritanical deeds. The tribal elders in eastern Afghanistan stood against their tyranny, the true unsung heroes who risked their lives and gave extraordinary sacrifices, by forming the uprising units to repel the Daesh insurgents from their constituencies. The fierce anti-Daesh operations conducted by the Afghan National and Defense Security forces and supported by the US airstrikes caused them unprecedented damages with the extermination of 1600 foot soldiers and decapitation of its 20 top leaders. The Afghans have discarded their brand of Islam, even the late head of Taliban Akhtar Muhammad Mansour had written a letter to the leader of takfiri ideology, Aboubakar al Baghdadi, warning him clear and loud "that there is room for only one flag and leadership". Daesh in Afghanistan had to survive in a very congested space: fighting against the US and Afghan forces, the uprising units and occasionally the Taliban due to their ideological differences.
The partial, yet significant, victory of Afghan military forces over the Islamic State terror organization in eastern Afghanistan is a remarkable achievement for the Afghan army which manifests the courage, commitment, professionalism and bravery of an army which was formed only after 9/11. Furthermore, it also disheartening to see the negligible mainstream media coverage devoted to this outstanding feat. However, the threat of ISKP is not over yet, just like the diversity of the surrendered IS insurgents suggest that it is an entirely 'foreign' entity and disdained phenomenon which can only be defeated completely by a collective mechanism involving the concerted efforts of the regional states. The threat of IS terrorism and its prospects in Afghanistan are largely overestimated by many western media outlets which hold Afghanistan a favorable environment for the IS insurgents, ignoring the fact that Daesh enjoys not only limited operational space but also the minutest of political and ideological support from the Afghans. Moreover, it is not an indigenous movement like the Taliban which can be successful in sustaining their operational objectives in the long run with some support from the local populace. The terror group has lost one of its major stronghold in the east, its local collaborators are neutralized in search and combing operations by the Afghan special operation forces and they are constantly pounded in the north. Daesh in eastern Afghanistan is gone, hopefully forever.
Samiullah Doorandesh is a student of International Relations at Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad. He can be reached at Samiullah.doorandesh@gmail.com
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HollywoodNews.com > *NEWS > BAFTA and DGA continue to suggest a tight race between "Birdman" and "Boyhood"
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BAFTA and DGA continue to suggest a tight race between "Birdman" and "Boyhood"
By: Joey Magidson
For about 12 hours there over the weekend, it looked like the Oscar race had been settled. Once Alejandro González Iñárritu had taken the Directors Guild of America top prize late on Saturday night, it appeared that Birdman had locked itself in. After all, the film had basically swept the guilds. Then, yesterday saw the British Academy of Film and Television Awards flipped the switch, opting to heavily reward Richard Linklater and Boyhood, while also going with The Grand Budapest Hotel and The Theory of Everything in certain categories instead of Birdman. Now, we're more or less back to square one. Birdman and Boyhood are fighting it out for Best Picture and Best Director at the Academy Awards, with no one sure which movie will emerge victorious.
There are now two distinct narratives at play. One puts Iñárritu's Birdman out in front by a decent margin, while other has Linklater's Boyhood still holding on to the frontrunner status with Oscar by a thread. Both have validity and both have holes that can be poked in them. Whichever is actually in the top spot right now, it's by a slimmer margin than anyone could have rationally expected. You almost can flip a coin. That's led a lot of people to talk about predicting a split, and while that could easily happen, it's never smart to predict one. I'll address that in a future column though, much like I mentioned it last year.
In favor of Birdman, we really have to look at the guild wins. While we saw Boyhood mostly run away with the early critics awards, when it got past the Golden Globes, Birdman got to shine. The groups that have crossover with the Academy cited Iñárritu and his film (particularly DGA, PGA, and SAG), which is a big deal. Movies with the precursor wins that Birdman has almost never lose Best Picture, though at the same time comedies almost never win in Best Director, let alone in Picture. That leads me to believe that while Birdman is probably in the number one slot, it's by only a tiny margin, if a margin at all (Michael Keaton falling behind Eddie Redmayne in Best Actor gives me pause, for example). That could easily change too, in the next week and change.
In favor of Boyhood, you want to look at BAFTA, as well as what Oscar voters traditionally go for. The British voting block that's always so important at the Academy Awards went with Linklater and his film, suggesting strength for Boyhood in that regard. That's a plus, while at the same time Birdman wasn't as well liked as either The Grand Budapest Hotel or The Theory of Everything when it comes to BAFTA voters. Make of that what you will, but Boyhood needed this in a big way. Had this precursor not come through for it, the race would have been over, which is insane considering how dominant it was, from the start of the precursors, right through the Golden Globes. Right now, I have no clue how this ultimately goes, but I think Linklater might have a slightly better chance in Director than Boyhood does in Picture. That's just a hunch though. I'm really still simply scratching my head, more than anything else.
Can something else swoop in at the last minute with the upset? I highly doubt it, especially since there hasn't been a true third place contender to really hang your hat on. At different points we've had The Grand Budapest Hotel, The Imitation Game, and Selma lay claim to that number three spot, while now you can potentially argue that perhaps The Theory of Everything should be considered there too. Regardless, none of them have coalesced the wide support necessary to really give it the chance to slip through the cracks and win. In another lifetime, Selma might have been that contender, but that ship seems to have very much sailed by now. I'd be genuinely shocked if it wound up pulling that upset off. It's very much down to just Birdman or Boyhood at this point. All others need not apply, at least in Best Picture/Best Director.
It's truly been a precursor season for the ages. I've never been less confident in my predictions than I am this year. Short of the locked up races in major categories like Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, and Best Supporting Actress, almost anything could happen. Hell, I expect that there will be at least one more surprise in store for us at the very end. Maybe it's Whiplash pulling the upset in Best Adapted Screenplay? Maybe Original Screenplay works out with Picture and Director to make sure that Iñárritu and Linklater both go home with Oscars? Who knows? I just know that the Academy Awards are going to be fascinating and full of tension later on this month, and that's a lovely change of pace…
Stay tuned to see how it all turns out!
Tags: Alejandro González Iñárritu, BAFTA, Birdman, Boyhood, British Academy of Film and Television, dga, directors guild of america, Richard Linklater, Selma, The Grand Budapest Hotel, The Imitation Game, The Theory of Everything, Whiplash
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