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Dennis Quaid Explores Complex Father-Son Relationship in Inspiring 'I Can Only Imagine'
FeaturesFilm Features Angela Dawson|March 14, 2018
Bart Millard (John Michael Finley) and Arthur Millard (Dennis Quaid) have a confrontation in the new film I CAN ONLY IMAGINE. ©Lionsgate and Roadside Attractions.
HOLLYWOOD—Dennis Quaid has played a range of characters in his long illustrious career, some fictitious ("Cap" Rooney in Oliver Stone's "Any Given Sunday"), some larger than life (Doc Holliday in "Wyatt Earp" and Jerry Lee Lewis in "Great Balls of Fire"). Lately, the Houston native has gravitated toward family and faith-based films including 2011's "Soul Surfer," and last year's "A Dog's Purpose." In "I Can Only Imagine," he plays an alcoholic who drives his son away after years of physical and emotional abuse but then tries to make amends when he learns he has a terminal disease and undergoes a spiritual transformation.
The film about second chances is based on the real-life relationship of Christian rock musician Bart Millard and his father, Arthur Millard. After reconciling with his estranged father shortly before his death, Bart was inspired to write the song "I Can Only Imagine," which became a crossover hit in 2001 on the pop, country and adult contemporary charts. It is the only contemporary Christian song certified double platinum. It also earned Dove awards for Song of the Year and Songwriter of the Year. Millard, who like Quaid is a native Texan, wrote the lyrics and composed the music with his MercyMe band mates in just a few minutes, but it was based on a lifetime of experience. Amy Grant, among other notable musicians, have covered the inspiring song.
In an interview, Quaid reveals he didn't know the song, or the incredible story behind it, when he received a copy of the screenplay to read. He simply was moved by the story. As a musician himself, he knows the power music can have on a person's soul. He stars in the film alongside J. Michael Finley, a Broadway actor making his screen debut at Bart, Madeline Carroll, who plays Bart's understanding girlfriend Shannon, country singer/actor Trace Adkins, as Bart's manager Brickell and Cloris Leachman as Bart's grandmother. The drama is co-directed and co-written by brothers Jon and Andrew Erwin.
Q: What's the magic that drew you into this project?
Quaid: Well I did "Soul Surfer," which was another faith-based film, if you want to call it that. The real Bethany Hamilton was on the set and her brother was working on the crew, and we became friends. Afterwards, he sent me this (script) and the CD. (Filmmakers) Andy and Jon contacted him as a way in. I put the CD aside, and checked out the script to see if I wanted to do it. I was so profoundly moved by this story, and how raw it was. It's kind of scary-truthful in a way. It's very brave on Bart's part to even tell this story.
Q: Were you aware of the song at the time?
Quaid: No I was not. I wasn't aware of it, or Bart (Millard, the writer-singer), his story or anything.
Q: The fact that you play music and have been in other movies with music, does that aspect appeal to you in how deep it gets you?
Quaid: Yeah, for sure. A song comes on the radio from sometime back in your life and it brings up exactly where you were, what you were doing and what you were thinking. It brings up feelings why you were so attached to it.
Q: How did you prepare for the role of Arthur Millard? Is there anything you can identify with him?
Quaid: I'm certainly not the kind of dad Arthur was. (My preparation) was talking to Bart, when I got to the set. I sat Bart down and had him tell me—out of his own mouth—the story. It was a great gateway of getting to his father, just watching Bart, not even the words or the story about it. Just feeling Bart as he told his story. And then, in just the doing of it. J. Michael (Finley, who plays Bart) was such a great actor. Very vulnerable to work with; a very great talent. New to the scene. And great singer in his own right. Andy and Jon were molding the story. We were all in there making something out of nothing. Every day, really, because it doesn't matter what's on the page.
You get in there and you have to play these really difficult (scenes). You don't want to go there (emotionally), really. Who wants to go there? But we did. We got it. But there always, for me, has to be a tiny bit of distance because there's distance when somebody is abusing somebody like that. They're separated from what is really going on. They're unaware to begin with. So, in between takes, I would drop it like a hot potato, and go out to my trailer, watch whatever was on the satellite TV. What we were going for was the truth. Bart was there on the set. We wanted to make it real for him more than anything.
Q: It's kind of unusual to have the real person you're playing looking over your shoulder, isn't it?
Quaid: I've kind of gotten over that. I had Jerry Lee Lewis right over my shoulder when I was doing "Great Balls of Fire," going "You're getting it wrong, son," for like three months, and then (baseball player) Jim Morris was on the set of "The Rookie." He was a little more pleasant. But there comes a time, when I'm doing a film, where I knew more about the character—of Arthur, in this case—than Bart did, in a sense. It's just a way I felt inside playing the character of Arthur. Everything doesn't have to be exact exact. The way I feel about playing real people is I try to capture the essence of them.
Q: You had two things to deal with. One was being a father who was abusive, and also a father who was aware he was abusive, and he's dying. How did you pile both things into one character?
Quaid: It's an amazing arc of a human being, let alone a character. Most abusive parents were abused kids by relatives or by someone else but there's just no excuse for abuse. He was bitter about his own supposed dashed hopes and dreams. How real they may have been or not, I don't know. But he made Bart feel bad about himself and he physically and verbally abused him. He emotionally abused him every single day of his life. When you do that to a kid, it affects the way they think about themselves, who they are and their worth as a person. That went on well into Bart being a young man, to the point where he just had to leave home. His mom wasn't there either, and so he just had to get out. Unbeknownst to Bart, Arthur got a diagnose with this death sentence kind of cancer. It forced him to really look at himself and his life, and he wanted to have a relationship with Bart, and Bart wouldn't have it at all. He wouldn't buy it.
Prayer forces us to really look at our true selves because that's who you're talking to—your true self—through God. He found he had a spiritual awakening through Christianity and through Jesus and he wanted to make amends, ask for forgiveness, which wasn't expected to happen. But, slowly, it worked for him, and worked for Bart. He came around and forgave him, and Arthur had to forgive himself, which is really hard. They had the most loving, close relationship at the end of Arthur's life. And there was that gift that Arthur gave Bart at the end where Bart did not have to spend the rest of his life feeling the way he did about himself. And then this song comes along, "I Can Only Imagine," that he wrote about his dad. It was a huge-selling song. The reason it was is because everyone who hears the song and listens to the words take it personally into their own lives for one reason or another. It hits in a place where we don't have words. There's a yearning there.
Q: Do the roles you play ever have an influence on your real life?
Quaid: I learn something from every part I do. I take away something. I don't know if I can put it into words sometimes. Movies are made to make us feel things. They hit us in place that we don't have words for. In a way, they kind of point the way at that. So, yeah, I guess it changed me but I'm not quite sure how. I'm glad to be here today talking to you about it. (He laughs.)
Q: What do you have next? What are you working on or what's coming up?
Quaid: Actually, I got my Nordic sailor's haircut and I'm going to be shooting at the North Pole in about another week, 200 miles from the North Pole. It's a series for Amazon called "Fortitude." It's a really great series. It's in its third (and final) season. My second. We're shooting near the North Pole where it has 1,000 people and 3,000 polar bears.
Tags:Andrew Erwin, Arthur Millard, Bart Millard, Dennis Quaid, I Can Only Imagine, J. Michael Finlay, Jon Erwin, MercyMe
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Q: Unable to access inner JSON value in JSON array - Typescript(Using Angular 8) I am trying to use the group by function on a JSON array using the inner JSON value as a key as shown below. But unable to read the inner JSON value. Here is my JSON array.
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GroupBy Logic:
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Desired output
{ "2434":[{
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A: Does this solves your purpose?
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A: Try like this:
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According to oddsmakers from online sports book BetNow.eu, the Vikings are 1-point favorites to beat the Saints. The total, meanwhile, sits at 52 points. As of this writing, 52% of the public betting tickets are on the Saints to cover the point spread.
Drew Brees completed 22-of-30 passes for 212 yards and two touchdowns in the Saints' 24-23, Week 7 win over the Ravens. The scores were Nos. 500 and 501 of Brees' Hall-of-Fame career. He is just the fourth member of the 500-touchdown club. The Saints were methodical in the road victory, rushing 39 times while trying to gobble up clock. No. 2 quarterback Taysom Hill remained extremely involved as a red zone gadget player. Hill is little more than a nuisance, though he is curbing both Brees and Alvin Kamara's ultimate upside. The Saints are headed on the road to Minnesota's dome for Week 8.
Vikings coach Mike Zimmer declined to say if DE Everson Griffen (personal) will play Week 8 against the Saints. Griffen missed more than a month dealing with mental health issues, but he returned to the team on Wednesday. "We're just going to see how he comes back," Zimmer said. "The focus is seeing how he's doing, and work him in a little bit, and we'll decide at the end of the week." Griffen has recorded double-digit sacks three of the last four seasons.
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Marvel's 'Ant-Man' appeals to women, families
This photo provided by Disney shows Paul Rudd as Scott Lang/Ant-Man in a scene from Marvel's "Ant-Man." The film opens in Korean theaters Sept. 3.[AP/NEWSIS]
Marvel's "Ant-Man'' punched above its weight at the weekend box office, debuting with an estimated $58 million, while Amy Schumer's "Trainwreck'' also opened strongly with $30.2 million.
The result for "Ant-Man'' didn't match some of Marvel's better known and brawnier properties. But "Ant-Man'' - a relatively inexpensive superhero movie with a $130 million budget - still dominated North American multiplexes, edging out the little yellow guys of Universal's "Minions,'' which took in $50.2 million in its second week.
"Ant-Man,'' starring Paul Rudd as a slightly more irreverent and distinctly smaller superhero, came in a little below earlier stand-alone Marvel films like "Thor'' ($65.7 million in 2011) and "Captain America: The First Avenger'' ($65.1 million in 2011).
Dave Hollis, head of distribution at Disney, credited Marvel for successfully expanding its universe both in tone and audience makeup. The movie, a more humorous heist film, appealed more to women (42 percent of the audience) and families (28 percent) than most Marvel releases.
"Most encouragingly in this one, the exit scores we're seeing from women - their likelihood to recommend and how much they enjoyed the film - was higher here than almost any film we've had,'' Hollis said. "It's a great sign for what word of mouth should be for the run, but, two, what it means for how women think about these movies being for them as much as men might.''
The next question will be whether the result was strong enough to kick start an "Ant-Man 2.'' Though "Ant-Man'' had a rocky path to the screen, with director Peyton Reed replacing Edgar Wright shortly before shooting commenced, its CinemaScore from audiences is an A. It took in $56.4 million abroad.
The opening was closest to 2008's "The Incredible Hulk'' ($55 million), the poorly received Edward Norton edition that didn't spawn further installments. Rudd is already to appear as Ant-Man in "Captain America: Civil War.''
"I say this was a success,'' said Paul Dergarabedian, Rentrak's senior media analyst. "This was never predestined to open with $80 [million] or $100 million. Marvel continues to evolve and surprised the audience. This was about a perfectly solid result for a brand new property.''
The $30.2 million opening for Schumer's big-screen debut, "Trainwreck,'' which the comedian also wrote, earned an estimated $30.2 million, making the R-rated Universal release one of the biggest comedy successes this summer.
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ANTS Performance Profiler 8 released
ANTS Performance Profiler 8 has just shipped! We've been working on it for eight months, and there's a huge amount of new functionality to make it easier than ever for you to nail performance problems and write awesome-fast software. If you'd prefer to go straight ahead and try it for yourself, you can do just that over on the Red Gate website. Otherwise, let's take a look at what's been added.
Firstly, you can now look at how your application communicates with other web servers, with web request profiling. Any outbound http requests your application makes are captured, along with the url, verb, status code, and complete request and response header information.
Perhaps more cool is that the information about those requests is shown to you in the application's call tree alongside your .NET code and information about any database calls, so you can see exactly what led to requests being made.
We're really excited about async / await in C#5, because of just how much simpler it is to write asynchronous code. The catch is that if you ever want to look at how that code executes, like if you were, say, profiling your application's performance, you suddenly get exposed to the mysterious under-the-hood workings of async. How the code is actually executed by the CLR bears little resemblance to the code you wrote, so it's difficult to understand where any performance problems might lie.
ANTS now has a unique async profiling mode, which lets you look at your async code's performance as you wrote it. The continuation of an async method (after an await keyword) is shown to you as being part of the parent async method, whereas previously and in other tools it's just shown as happening on the threadpool with nothing to suggest how the activity is related to the async method. Any time spent doing work asynchronously can also be attributed to the parent async method that caused that work to happen, so you're finally able to see see how actions like making asynchronous database calls are affecting the performance of your application, and get a deep understanding of why that activity is happening.
If you're doing things like using async controllers in MVC4 / Web API, or are writing a Windows Store application with C#, we're pretty sure this is going to make your life easier.
Speaking of Windows Store apps, support has been added for them too. You'll be able to write faster apps which feel more slick – something which is particularly important for the lower-powered hardware on which they might be running. While we're on new technology support, SharePoint 2013 applications can now be profiled as well.
If you've used a previous version of ANTS, you're going to notice some major changes to the UI. The entire startup process has been rebuilt from scratch, making it easier and faster to begin profiling. The job of any startup process it to get out of the way as fast as possible, and that's just what we've aimed for. In fact it's really common to want to repeatedly run similar sessions, and that's now possible in a single click using the new recent session history.
The timeline has also been completely redesigned. It's now easier to look at different performance counters and to jump around between different time periods. You can also see exceptions on the timeline, then jump to the precise place in the call tree where they were thrown.
There are a load of other enhancements, like the ability to profile ASP.NET applications using any browser rather than Internet Explorer, and also more bug fixes than you could shake a stick at.
A final point: lots of these improvements have been directly driven by feedback from users telling us what they'd like to see. If you've got ideas for new features or enhancements, we'd love to hear from you. Just drop an email to dotnetteam@red-gate.com.
Try the new version out for yourself, and let us know what you think!
Ben is a technical product manager for Redgate's developer tools. He spends his days digging into what makes applications grind to a halt, what makes them bloat and fall over, and what it takes to build something fast and scalable. When he's not doing that, he's probably messing with some electronics, cooking, or playing the violin.
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No. 1 | In a small bowl, mix the yeast with the lukewarm milk. Set aside until it becomes bubbly and foamy on top, about 5-10 minutes.
No. 2 | Add the flour, sugar and butter to your Vitamix® container. Fasten the lid securely and set the speed to 5. Pulse the Vitamix® about 10-12 times until the ingredients resemble sand.
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No. 7 | Make the filling, by mixing the butter, sugar, salt, and cocoa powder together until smooth. Stir in the chocolate chunks. Spread the filling evenly all over the dough, save for about half an inch on one of the short ends.
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Q: Overriding other __rmul__ with your class's __mul__ In Python, is it possible for your class's __rmul__ method to override another class's __mul__ method, without making changes to the other class?
This question arises since I'm writing a class for a certain type of linear operator, and I want it to be able to multiply numpy arrays using the multiplication syntax. Here is a minimal example illustrating the issue:
import numpy as np

class AbstractMatrix(object):
    def __init__(self):
        self.data = np.array([[1, 2],[3, 4]])

    def __mul__(self, other):
        return np.dot(self.data, other)

    def __rmul__(self, other):
        return np.dot(other, self.data)

Left multiplication works fine:
In[11]: A = AbstractMatrix()
In[12]: B = np.array([[4, 5],[6, 7]])
In[13]: A*B
Out[13]:
array([[16, 19],
       [36, 43]])

But right multiplication defaults to np.ndarray's version, which splits the array up and performs multiplication element-by-element (this not what is desired):
In[14]: B*A
Out[14]:
array([[array([[ 4,  8],
       [12, 16]]),
        array([[ 5, 10],
       [15, 20]])],
       [array([[ 6, 12],
       [18, 24]]),
        array([[ 7, 14],
       [21, 28]])]], dtype=object)

In this situation, how can I make it call my own class's __rmul__ on the original (unsplit) array?
Answers addressing the specific case of numpy arrays are welcome but I am also interested in the general idea of overriding methods of another third party class that cannot be modified.

A: The easiest way to make NumPy respect your __rmul__ method is to set an __array_priority__:
class AbstractMatrix(object):
    def __init__(self):
        self.data = np.array([[1, 2],[3, 4]])

    def __mul__(self, other):
        return np.dot(self.data, other)

    def __rmul__(self, other):
        return np.dot(other, self.data)

    __array_priority__ = 10000

A = AbstractMatrix()
B = np.array([[4, 5],[6, 7]])

This works like expected.
>>> B*A
array([[19, 28],
       [27, 40]])

The problem is that NumPy doesn't respect Pythons "Numeric" Data model. If a numpy array is the first argument and numpy.ndarray.__mul__ isn't possible then it tries something like:
result = np.empty(B.shape, dtype=object)
for idx, item in np.ndenumerate(B):
    result[idx] = A.__rmul__(item)

However if the second argument has an __array_priority__ and it's higher than the one of the first argument only then it really uses:
A.__rmul__(B)

However since Python 3.5 (PEP-465) there is the @ (__matmul__) operator that can utilize matrix multiplication:
>>> A = np.array([[1, 2],[3, 4]])
>>> B = np.array([[4, 5],[6, 7]])
>>> B @ A
array([[19, 28],
       [27, 40]])