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The Unknown Citizen
The Unknown Citizen Analysis
This poem could be the first number of a really wild Andrew Lloyd Weber musical that is set in the windowless office building of a government bureaucracy. All you'd have to do is add some simple music and actors, and change the title from "The Unknown Citizen" to "The Unknown Citizen!" It probably wouldn't hurt to throw in some exclamation marks elsewhere in the poem, too: "A phonograph, a radio, a car, and a frigidaire!"
If you've ever seen a musical theater performance like "Ragtime" or "Phantom of the Opera," then you know that sometimes the actors belt out their songs, and sometimes they just seem to be talking-in-song. "The Unknown Citizen" could fit with the second approach. The verses sound catchy and have that "'Twas the Night Before Christmas" meter, but the rhythm isn't consistent enough to merit the belting-out approach. That is, phrases like "in the modern sense of an old-fashioned" don't exactly lend themselves to melody (line 4). Instead you've got to imagine the actors shouting the lines with lots of enthusiasm and charisma, while instruments play a catchy beat in the background. Oh, and a tuba. There's got to be a tuba.
Places, people! In center stage you have the speaker, our faceless bureaucrat. But, just to make things more interesting, some of his faceless co-workers are crowded around him, presenting their own reports about the UC. This could work because the poem breaks down nicely into different chunks.
Lines 6-11, for example, provide information about his job and Union membership. Some of these lines have a singable, Dr. Seuss-like sound (and don't forget to add those exclamation marks): "Yet he wasn't a scab or odd in his views! / For his Union reports that he paid his dues!" You could have a bunch of different characters representing the different kinds of bureaucrats who get to have their say, from the "Social Psychology works" to the "researchers into Public Opinion." Their words sound a little phony, but they could try to cover up the awkwardness of lines like "his reactions to advertisements were normal in every way" by having a huge smile plastered across their faces. So huge, in fact, that you could see it from the back row.
Overall, the poem is trying to give the impression of a happy celebration, even though the subject matter is boring and, quite honestly, a little frightening. Just like in musical theater, when characters who are supposed to be sad and depressed always seem so darned cheerful because they're singing.
So, there you have it. The first number of "The Unknown Citizen." the Broadway smash-spectacular coming soon to a theater near you! Now, if you were to write the script to the rest of the musical, how would it go?
What's Up With the Title?
"The Unknown Citizen" is a parody of the "The Unknown Soldier," a term used to recognize people whose bodies are found after a battle but cannot be identified. The U.S. Army uses metal dog tags to identify soldiers who are killed in action, but these tags can be lost or melted, and sometimes it's just impossible to locate or identify a person's remains. In this case, many countries use the concept of the "Unknown Soldier" to acknowledge the sacrifice of soldiers who die anonymously. France placed a Tomb of the Unknown Soldier under the famous Arc de Triomphe in Paris; England has one in Westminster Abbey; and the United States has one in Arlington National Cemetery. Indeed, the epigraph implies that the poem is attached to a fictional "marble monument" dedicated to the UC.
The concept of "The Unknown Citizen" suggests that the lives of many normal people are so conventional and uneventful that they might as well be unknown or anonymous. They're just an empty suit or a face in the crowd. Of course, it's only a metaphor. Normal people don't often die anonymously – though, sadly, it sometimes happens. With his tongue in his cheek, Auden is trying to celebrate or recognize the "sacrifice" of the Average Joe. However, this sacrifice is nothing like a soldier's, as Auden is well aware. Rather, the Unknown Citizen is praised for being a good consumer, for buying the same things as everyone else, and for not having opinions that might upset anyone. The message to the reader is clear: you don't want to end up like the Unknown Citizen.
It's hard to know what kind of setting to imagine for this poem. You've got the setting of the monument on which the poem is inscribed, and then you've got the setting of The Big Man himself, our Unknown Citizen.
What kind of monument is it? We think a bronze statue of this famous Magritte painting would be a good fit. We don't think the monument would let us know very much about the UC at all. Maybe it would just be a slab of clean white marble with no decoration, or a big marble replica of a dollar bill (because he was so good at buying things), or maybe it would be an obelisk like the Washington Monument. We're sure you can come up with something interesting.
Anyway, we're going to plop our monument down right in the middle of the Washington Mall, maybe next to the Lincoln Memorial. The Unknown Citizen deserves a central place in our nation's capital, considering all his huge accomplishments like having five kids! It will be right down the street from the Bureau of Statistics, a huge, drab marble building. And, of course, it will have that strange dedication "To JS/07 M 378" on it.
As for the Unknown Citizen, he lives a very neat, organized society. It looks like a squeaky-clean 1950s TV show – except in the 1930s. The new Ford has just been waxed, the Jell-O is cooling in the frigidaire, and the kids are on the living room floor, listening to the latest episode of Little Orphan Annie on the radio:
"Who's that little chatter box?
The one with pretty auburn locks?
Whom do you see?
It's Little Orphan Annie."
If you've ever seen the Jim Carrey movie, The Truman Show, you know what we mean. But there's a slightly seedy underside to this quaint little vision, and it's that the government seems to know everything. There are tons of reports and paperwork to fill out, and researchers into Public Opinion are walking the streets, taking the mood of the public on every subject under the sun. If you say something odd or don't pay your Union dues, people will look at you cock-eyed and maybe even stop talking to you. And, trust us, no one is ever going to ask if you're happy.
We're so familiar with the uptight bureaucrat as a source of parody that it's easy to forget that we didn't always have bureaucrats. It wasn't until governments got really huge and corporations became the center of the economy that the large, complex organizations we call "bureaucracies" really took off.
The speaker of "The Unknown Citizen" is a bureaucrat who works for the State, or government. Or at least he's a big fan of bureaucracies. How do we know? Because he cites them…a lot. The first line, even, calls attention to the Bureau of Statistics. Bureaucrats love to gather data and statistics, because they help managers run an organization more efficiently. However, it's a problem when living, breathing people become mere statistics: John Doe watches 1,356 hours of television a day, runs 22 miles a week, reads 12.7 books, etc. To the speaker, the Unknown Citizen is just a collection of statistics, which is why he remains "unknown."
The speaker doesn't just speak for himself, though; he represents the entire apparatus of the State. Like a king during the Middle Ages, he uses the "Royal We" to make clear that his assessment of the Unknown Citizen's character is not just one person's opinion: it's the official position of the State. So he says, "our Social Psychology works" and "our Eugenist." Clearly he has consulted with a lot of people before writing this poem. It's a real team effort, but also very creepy.
Seeing as the concept of "The Unknown Citizen" is a parody of the idea of "The Unknown Soldier," we see a parallel here to the process of awarding a really high military award, like the Congressional Medal of Honor, which is given out for extraordinary heroism in battle. Before such an award can be given out, the army conducts detailed research into the recipient's background and their deeds of heroism. Although the Unknown Citizen doesn't win any awards, he does have a marble monument in his honor, which is a big deal.
We might imagine the speaker as some guy in a grey suit sitting in a windowless office somewhere, reading reports turned in by other people and organizations. He doesn't know the UC, and probably doesn't care, but it's his job to write up some flattering piece of verse, and by golly, he doesn't want to let the State down. He stinks at delivering compliments, and he gets a bit testy at the suggestion that maybe the Unknown Citizen wasn't free and happy. It's like when you call up a company to tell them their product is broken and the Customer Service person gets annoyed and says, "That's not possible – our products never break – you must be using it wrong!"
The last thing to say about the speaker is that he's not actually speaking. That is, in the fictional world of the poem, these lines are inscribed on the monument to the Unknown Citizen. It had to have been written by someone, but this "someone" is also "unknown." Let's call him "The Unknown Bureaucrat."
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Ah, Auden. This poem is so simple, yet so intelligent. It takes a great writer to pull that off. The poem has hardly any metaphors and only a handful of historical vocab words. It sounds like something that a clueless bureaucrat could have written…if he wanted to write a wicked satire of himself.
Sort-of-Ironic Rhymes
It's hard to pull off rhymes in 20th century poetry. First, because it sounds old-fashioned, like you're trying too hard to write "Poetry." Second, because there aren't many "masters" to serve as models. W.H. Auden is a notable exception to the trend. He gets away with rhymes in part because we're not sure he's doing it with a straight face. But he might be. You just don't know, especially in a dramatic poem like "The Unknown Citizen," where the speaker is a fictional person. Did Auden use rhymes in part to make fun of the speaker? Maybe, but they sound so natural and unforced that we don't necessarily have to explain the decision as an ironic one. We'll call it "sort-of-ironic" and leave you to figure out what the heck that means.
Form and Meter
Satiric Elegy in Rhyme
An "elegy" is a poem about a dead person. These types of poems can be sad and mopey or grand and celebratory. "The Unknown Citizen" is of the grand and celebratory variety, but it's also a satire, which means that it is making fun of the person it pretends to celebrate. There's not much that's grand about the Unknown Citizen. We know that he's dead because the speaker refers to him in the past tense, and also because the monument for "The Unknown Citizen" reminds us of "The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier," which was created to honor soldiers who died in battle but whose remains were never identified.
The speaker of the poem thinks he is paying a lot of nice comments, but most of his compliments amount to saying that the UC never caused anyone any problems. He sounds like the guy who agrees with everything and whom everyone calls "a nice person." This is called "damning with faint praise," because the praise is so weak and half-hearted that we know it's just masking his utter insignificance. And, just so you know, Auden didn't write satiric elegies exclusively; he also wrote two of the best heartfelt elegies of the 20th century: "In Memory of Sigmund Freud" and "In Memory of WB Yeats."
At a time when many poets were throwing themselves fully into unrhymed free verse, Auden was happily continuing the tradition of writing in rhyme. His rhymes don't sound old-fashioned, either, although sometimes they seem ironic. When people complain that his poetry doesn't rhyme anymore, you can point them back to Auden's work.
However, he was far from a conventional poet, and "The Unknown Citizen" doesn't follow a standard rhyme scheme. Instead, it alternates between a few different, simple rhyme schemes. The simplicity of Auden's rhymes is striking, as if he had nothing to prove. Which he didn't, considering that he was also a whiz with more complicated forms of rhyme.
The poem begins with an ABAB pattern, but then switches to a rhyming couple (AA, BB, etc.), after which he starts hopping around a lot. Some of the rhymes are sandwiched between other rhymes. Check out lines 8-13, which follow the pattern ABBCCA. You think he's not going to rhyme anything with "Inc.", but then, five lines later, he comes at you with "drink." These two words are so far away that you might not even realize he was rhyming, but we bet your inner ear did.
Finally, the rhythm of the poem roughly centers on the anapest, a metrical foot that has two unstressed beats followed by a stressed beat. In the future, whenever you hear the tricky-sounding term anapest, think of the first two lines of "'Twas the Night Before Christmas," which has eight perfect anapests in a row: "'Twas the NIGHT before CHRISTmas and ALL through the HOUSE, / not a CREAture was STIRing not EVen a MOUSE." Auden doesn't ever use that many anapests in a row, but they are pretty common in the poem, such as at the beginning, "He was FOUND by the BUReau . . ."
Now, if this meter sounds corny to you, then you're on to something. Remember that this is a dramatic poem, and the fictional speaker is a government bureaucrat, so we would expect it to sound a bit corny, like something you might read on a greeting card…or a monument.
Symbols, Imagery, Wordplay
Welcome to the land of symbols, imagery, and wordplay. Before you travel any further, please know that there may be some thorny academic terminology ahead. Never fear, Shmoop is here. Check out our "How to Read a Poem" section for a glossary of terms.
This isn't a poem that uses a lot of similes and metaphors. In fact, at times it seems deliberately un-poetic. The only metaphor we could find was the comparison between the Unknown Citizen and a saint. Then again, the entire poem is an elaborate comparison between the Unknown Citizen, whose accomplishments are ridiculously overstated, and the Unknown Soldier, which was created to honor heroic sacrifices that were never witnessed or confirmed.
Title: The title is the only place where the term "Unknown Citizen" is used, so it is a key to the entire poem. It lets us know that the poem is an allegory, or an extended comparison to figures outside the poem. "The Unknown Citizen" is meant to recall the idea of "The Unknown Soldier," or a soldier whose remains could not be identified after a battle.
Line 4: The word "saint" is a religious term, so the Unknown Citizen can't actually be one, except in the modern sense, which means that we're dealing with a metaphor. It's also a drastic hyperbole – let's face it, the guy wasn't Gandhi.
Line 20: Everything necessary? Really? What about food, water, and shelter? This line is classic hyperbole, or exaggeration.
Bureaucracies and Investigation
The society depicted in the poem isn't a real, historical place: it's more like an ironic prophecy of the future using present-day parallels (or at least present-day from the perspective of 1939). The Unknown Citizen has been investigated to an absurd degree by all kinds of bureaucracies, from his employer, Fudge Motors, to Social Psychology workers, to Public Opinion researchers. There's a paper trail a mile long on this guy, but none of it tells us anything useful about who he is.
Epigraph: The epigraph furthers the allegory set up by the title, comparing the non-existent Unknown Citizen to the idea of the Unknown Soldier. The "marble monument" to the Unknown Citizen makes us think of the various Tombs of the Unknown Soldier in places like Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia.
Line 1: The "Bureau of Statistics" is a symbol representing the way bureaucracies treat people as mere numbers and figures.
Line 5: The "Greater Community" is a vague cliché used by bureaucracies to foster a sense of teamwork. It's not clear what the "community" refers to – his family, job, nation? Not all communities are compatible with one another, so it doesn't make sense to speak of just one Greater Community.
Line 26: We think the "Eugenist" is a personification of the field of eugenics as a whole. No government would ever have a single person called a Eugenist in charge of population control.
Parodies and Irony
The whole idea of the Unknown Citizen is a parody of the serious military concept of the Unknown Soldier, which was created in order to recognize the sacrifice of soldiers who died anonymously. The poem is dripping with irony, as the speaker lists off accomplishments that aren't accomplishments at all. At many points, the poem directly parodies existing American companies or organizations.
Line 2: It's ironic that a poem of praise would begin on such a dull and tepid point as the lack of "official complaints."
Line 8: Fudge Motors, Inc. sounds to us like a parody of Ford Motors, Inc, the biggest auto company in the world at the time. But more delicious.
Line 18: "Producers Research and High-Grade Living" are parodies of real consumer organizations like Consumer Reports and Good Housekeeping.
Line 19: To say that he was "fully sensible to the advantages of the Instalment Plan" is a hilarious understatement. He must have been aware at a higher level than his "senses."
Line 20: The phrase "everything necessary to the Modern Man" is a cliché used by advertisers to sell stuff. Today it sounds so old-fashioned that we can easily recognize it as such.
Sex Rating
The poem doesn't talk about the sex life of the Unknown Citizen, but he must have had sex at some point, because his wife gave birth to five babies. Nonetheless, we are going to take a stab in the dark and say that his sexual habits were probably conventional, like everything else about him.
"The Unknown Citizen" resembles the idea of "The Unknown Soldier" (title, epigraph)
Eugenics (line 26)
"Fudge Motors, Inc." sounds a lot like Ford Motors, Inc. (line 8)
"Producers Research and High-Grade Living" sound similar to organizations like Consumer Reports and Good Housekeeping. (line 18)


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Cannes Film Festival 2015: 3D Sexploitation And 'Love'
by Cole Smithey
Written by Cole Smithey
Cole Smithey is still filing reviews from Cannes Film Festival 2015, where he screened "Love," a 3D sexploitation film. What a flop. Even porn couldn't save it …
aNewDomain — The over-booked midnight screening for "Love" (Argentinian enfant terrible Gaspar Noe's latest provocation) caused at least one fistfight to break out in front of the Palais last night. Those ticketed audience members that did get inside the crowded auditorium were treated to one of the biggest examples of regression for any filmmaker in recent history.
What a flop … but first our daily report from Cannes, below.
Video: Cole Smithey for aNewDomain, reporting from Cannes Film Festival 2015. A Smart Media Production.
"Love" Hurts, "Love" Scars, "Love" Wounds
Pornographic in nature, "Love" is a 3D sexploitation movie made by a filmmaker unaware of the genre that he's working in. Noe, the genius behind such groundbreaking cinematic examples of social satire as "I Stand Alone" and "Irreversible" has made a film so sophomoric that it boggles the mind that it came from the same person who made "Enter the Void," one of the most visually and viscerally challenging films of the last 20 years.
Presented as Noe's dream-project since his early days in film school, "Love" is meant to display the reality of "sentimental sensuality" via "blood, tears and cum."
Of the three fluids as shown on and off-screen, semen is by far the most plentiful. Which should tell you something about Noe, who takes obvious advantage of the 3D process to break the proscenium window.
Featureless no-name actor Karl Glusman plays the director's younger alter ego Murphy, an ever-horny American studying filmmaking in Paris. Murphy (yes Murphy's law is the trite allusion that Noe is compelled to spell out in block letters) is an eternally miserable soul whose passion for cinema means that he wears an olive-green Army jacket just like the one Robert De Niro wore as Travis Bickle in "Taxi Driver."
Posters from such controversial films as "Salo" and "Andy Warhol's Frankenstein" adorn Murphy's small Parisian pad that he shares with Omi (Klara Kristin), the mother of his son Gaspar, thanks to a broken condom.
Not only is there not a single empathetic character in the movie, but also the ostensibly character-defining, formally explicit sex acts that Noe films primarily from above, illuminate fewer aspects of personality traits than you would find in a typical sample of homemade porn.
Traditionally, Cannes includes at least one salacious movie in every festival. In 2003, Vincent Gallo's "The Brown Bunny" sent critics groaning over its gratuitous oral sex scene between Chloe Sevigny and Gallo. "Brown Bunny" certainly isn't any better than "Love" but it was mercifully shorter at 93 minutes as compared to "Love's" arduous running time of 130 minutes.
Another difference is that no one expected much from Vincent Gallo as a filmmaker, who had only made one film ("Buffalo 66") before "Brown Bunny." The situation is considerably different for Noe who is likely to find that even his staunchest supporters will find little to admire, much less love, in a film that seems more like a student film project than a movie from an experienced filmmaker.
"Hitchcock Truffaut" — A Magical Hagiography
Although inappropriately screened in the Cannes Classics section of the festival, Kent Jones' painstaking documentary about the historic eight-day interview sessions between Francois Truffaut and his hero-filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock fulfills an essential niche in the history of cinema.
The interviews, for which Truffaut carefully planned in advance in the same way that he would prepare to make a film, approached each of Hitchcock's films up to that point, in chronological order.
The resulting book was Hitchcock Truffaut and it became a touchstone for several generations of filmmakers, such as Olivier Assayas, David Fincher, Richard Linklater, and Paul Schrader, some of whom are interviewed in the documentary.
The weakest link among the modern day filmmakers Jones chose to include? No question. It is notorious art-house hack pretender James Gray. The fact that he is included alongside the likes of Martin Scorsese really hits a wrong note.
That said, "Hitchcock Truffaut" makes ample use of clips from the films of both directors to explicate the methods and cinematic language each used toward telling stories on film.
The effect is as magical as it is informative.
Seamlessly narrated by Bob Balaban's non-imposing voice-over, the documentary walks a neat line between pedagogy and entertainment.
The only danger is that the viewer may feel inspired to go on an Alfred Hitchcock bender after seeing it.
For aNewDomain, I'm Cole Smithey.
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High-rise solution to affordable inner-city living has failed
By Leonid Bershidsky
Updated June 19, 2017 — 2.56pm first published June 16, 2017 — 11.45pm
The Grenfell Tower fire in London may have been preventable with better oversight and renovation technology. But there is a strong reason why it wasn't prevented: high-rise buildings aren't suitable for public housing, and wherever they are used in this way, they are a source of danger.
The investigation is ongoing, but so far the facts of the Grenfell Tower case appear straightforward. Residents have long complained of inadequate fire safety in the 24-storey building – power surges, insufficient and outdated firefighting equipment, an insufficient frequency of inspections. In response, they received at least one lawyerly demand that they take down blog posts.
Last year, the building was refurbished, receiving new windows, heating and ventilation systems – and cheap plastic-and-aluminum-based interior cladding, the same type that was responsible for a similar quick upward-spreading fire in a Melbourne apartment block in 2014. The local government, which owns the building, splashed out on the cladding to spruce up the grim-looking tower, built in 1974, because it was tall and visible from anywhere in the affluent area - Kensington, where the average rent on a one-bedroom apartment runs to $3400 (£1900) a month, compared with an average rent of $2650 a month for London as a whole.
As in much of Europe, the use of tower blocks as public housing in Britain began in the 1950s with a decision to provide public subsidies based on building height. The 1965 Housing Subsidy Act spawned 4500 tower blocks by 1979. It wasn't a great idea for many social reasons. By the end of the 1970s, a growing body of research showed that the social alienation of living in a high-rise increased psychological stress, that toxic materials used in industrial construction and insufficient thermal insulation led to health problems, and that widespread crime and disaffection was linked to the faulty urban planning.
Debris hangs from the blackened exterior of Grenfell Tower in London. Credit:Getty Images
These kinds of social problems are fixable to some extent, given a lot of determination on the residents' part. New York's Queensbridge Houses, the largest housing project in the US, recently celebrated a year without a single shooting.
But one thing about high-rises cannot be fixed: they have higher maintenance costs per square foot than human-scale buildings.
High land values in such cities as London, New York, Hong Kong and Tokyo make it more cost-effective to build tall. But these are the kind of savings you make when you buy a cheap car: they are erased by the ownership costs over the years. Tall buildings have more public areas, expensive elevators, complex wiring, and heating, water supply and ventilation systems. These are hard to service without disrupting the lives of hundreds of people.
The buildings that sprung up during the early industrial construction boom have their own set of problems: the building technology was untried and developing on the go, so structural problems have since emerged with many of the buildings. Buildings populated by the poorest tenants ended up with the highest maintenance and repair costs.
The charred facade of the Grenfell Tower in London. Credit:Alastair Grant
In a market-driven environment, operating costs passed on to condo owners are higher in tall buildings. But when the buildings are owned by a municipality, there's a high degree of moral hazard for local officials that nationally adopted policies cannot remove. In 2000, Britain adopted a program called Decent Homes, meant to improve social housing to modern standards. According to a July 2016 report by the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accounting, 85 per cent of housing owned by the local authorities is now up to the mark set by the program; Grenfell Tower has just been "regenerated" at a cost of £8.7 million. The cost was clearly insufficient, and the aesthetic changes may have made the building more vulnerable.
In many cases, local residents resist regeneration programs because they fear they may be a step towards gentrification and their eventual displacement. That's far from unique to Britain. In Berlin, for example, residents of Communist-era high-rises often fight the city authorities, demanding that their homes be left alone. That adds an incentive for the local governments to make their renovation efforts minimally intrusive. Meanwhile, problems accumulate.
London is in love with tall buildings again after a hiatus that lasted from the late 1970s through the 1990s. According to New London Architecture's Tall Buildings Survey, 455 high-rise projects with an average height of 30 stories are in the pipeline in the British capital, after a record 26 of them were completed in 2016. These, however, are luxury-to-middle-class housing built by commercial developers. Local councils often require them to include affordable units in their projects, but that's still not public housing – it's meant for people who can handle the maintenance costs.
That's the way it should be. Homes for the less affluent that are built today in such countries as the Netherlands and Denmark, which have extensive public housing programs, are not tall. Almere, not far from Amsterdam, is one of Europe's fastest-growing cities; meant to create an affordable alternative to life in the Dutch capital, it is predominantly low-rise.
Countries that still house many of their poor in tower blocks need to work on moving them out into human-scale housing that can be maintained more efficiently and, when necessary, by the people who live there.
The fundamental disconnect between the high maintenance cost of these buildings and their purpose is inevitably going to lead to more tragedies like that of Grenfell Tower. Poor oversight and underinvestment tend to become obvious only after the fact; they are both endemic to the failed high-rise solution.


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As Bravo fans know, the most important piece in the wardrobe of a "Real Housewife" is her reunion look.
And in a thrilling network crossover, the contestants of "Project Runway" Season 19 are tasked with designing such attire for some of the franchise's most beloved stars in tonight's episode.
Gizelle Bryant of "Potomac" and Luann de Lesseps of "New York City" are among the seven personalities who participated in the challenge, which will see the "Housewives" paired up with designers to craft their ultimate reunion ensembles.
The duo, who describe themselves as "'Project Runway' superfans," spoke exclusively with Page Six Style about their respective experiences filming for the long-running competition series — and why they trusted that its fashion-industry hopefuls could deliver reunion-worthy designs.
"Was I nervous? Absolutely. Was it nerve-racking? Yes," admitted Bryant, 51. She worked with Aaron Michael, known for his glitzy creations that include countless gowns for drag performers seen on "RuPaul's Drag Race."
"At the end of the day, it's his work that's on display. So, he's going to do the best job he can, and I felt like he nailed it."
After Bryant told Michael, 39, that she wanted to feel like a "sexy, snatched Barbie doll," he came up with a vibrant pink pantsuit that checked all the boxes.
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"I felt comfortable, I felt beautiful. I felt like I could walk on air in what he created for me," said the Maryland resident, who loved her look so much that she commissioned Michael to make her something similar for the "RHOP" Season 6 reunion that finished airing in November.
"After we met on 'Project Runway' this summer, I said I'd take him everywhere I go — and I meant that."
Though she was initially "skeptical" of the process, de Lesseps, 56, told us that she was equally impressed with her "Project Runway" match, Shantall Lacayo, who notably won last week's challenge.
"She didn't know who I was, who 'The Real Housewives' were or what a reunion was," said the Fosé Rosé founder, who has appeared on "RHONY" since its 2008 inception.
"But she is a great designer, so she took what I told her and then did her own thing. That's what designers do. They take that chance that you won't," said de Lesseps, who requested something "sexy and smart" that represented her duality as a cabaret performer and businesswoman.
The "Money Can't Buy You Class" singer went on to say that Lacayo, 37, "seemed super confident," which put her at ease.
"She had a great energy that quickly melted any nerves I had. Shantall was a pro," she said of the "Project Runway Latin America" alum, who won second place on the international edition in 2010.
"And what she created for me was absolutely spectacular."
Though "RHONY" Season 13 didn't have a reunion, de Lesseps said she might save Lacayo's gown for a future showdown.
"And if I don't, I would definitely hire Shantall to make something else for me down the road," the veteran reality TV personality explained. "She is a cut above the rest and I'm so happy our paths crossed."
In addition to Bryant and de Lesseps, Dr. Wendy Osefo and Karen Huger ("Potomac"), Leah McSweeney ("New York City") and Gina Kirschenheiter and Shannon Beador ("Orange County") strutted their stuff down "Project Runway's" catwalk in jaw-dropping attire.
"That part felt so awesome," said de Lesseps, who walked her fair share of runways during the early stages of her modeling career and, in her "RHONY" era, for "Project Runway" alum Malan Breton at New York Fashion Week.
"It's been a while, so it's nice to be back on the runway — especially on 'Project Runway,'" she acknowledged. "I just felt so gorgeous in that dress that it made my catwalk seem easy."
Bryant also felt great about her runway stride — especially after showing the footage to her three teenage daughters, Grace, Adore and Angel, beloved by viewers (and their mother) for their filter-free opinions.
"When I walked out on the runway, they loved it. They were like, 'Mommy, you ate.' That's the teenage term for, 'You did well,'" she said with a laugh. "They were like, 'You ate it up, mommy!' So, honestly, that's all the validation I needed."
The reunion-inspired challenge — for which "Real Housewives" honcho Andy Cohen serves as a guest judge — airs tonight on "Project Runway" at 9 p.m. ET on Bravo.
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While any green foods could pass as festive on St. Patrick's Day, there are certain Irish (or Irish-inspired) recipes that'll really take your celebration to the next level. Try these dinner, side dish, dessert, and drink ideas for an extra dose of good luck.
Tailor this quintessential Irish side to your liking by subbing out raisins for nuts, or leaving them out altogether.
You don't even need a special pan to bake these beauties — just use aluminum foil and a basic muffin tin to make three and four leaf clovers.
So it's not exactly authentic, but this meal has become part of the American tradition on St. Paddy's Day because, well, it's delicious.
There might be sheep at the end of this rainbow but rumor has it that there's a pot of gold waiting at the real one.
Take advantage of the final days of winter (wishful thinking!) with this warm and cozy meat pie.
This boozy spread makes a great appetizer for any party. And there are tons more ways you can cook with your Irish stout, if you want to start a theme.
Taste the rainbow — literally — with this easy-to-make (and easy-to-eat) treat.
Actual potatoes instead of potato chips? Don't mind if we do!
Don't put your heart-shaped cookie cutters away just yet: You can use them to make this adorable shamrock-shaped soda bread.
Mint and chocolate are the ultimate power duo — besides for corned beef and cabbage, of course.
Whether you're making shepherd's pie or just want a classic side dish, follow this video to make the fluffiest mashed potatoes yet.
Salted caramel gelato meets coffee, whiskey, and Thin Mints in this Irish coffee, which might as well be called "happiness in a cup."
All you need to make these breadsticks is beer, butter, and flour — all things that are probably waiting in your pantry right now.
Where there's booze, there should be sliders. Always. Oh, and Guinness mustard.
Mix Lucky Charms cereal in this cookie dough, so they can be magically delicious through and through.
Pair this rich, delicious stew with a bottle of Guinness for the ultimate comfort meal.
You better believe there's Bailey's chocolate ganache in these sandwich cookies.
These cheesy, doughy snack is the best thing to ever happen to your skillet. And it might also be the best way to soak up all the alcohol you're drinking on March 17.
Stick leftover slices of corned beef between this flavor-packed bread for a sandwich of dreams.
Flavored with kale or cabbage, this classic dish is a staple at Irish festivals and even to celebrate it.
If you like your soda bread on the sweet side, this one's for you. We're already dreaming of using the leftovers for French toast.
Stuff the holiday's traditional flavors into an egg roll, dip them in some , and call it a day.
When you add whole grains, it means you can eat the whole loaf right?
Honestly, is there anything more Instagram worthy than this festive layer cake? The answer is no.
Just because it's an Irish holiday doesn't mean you can't incorporate tacos somehow.
There's more to beer on St. Patrick's Day than turning it green. Take these cupcakes, for example — you can have your beer and eat it too.
It doesn't get more Irish than this Guinness-and-Irish-cheddar dish.
St. Patrick's Day fare isn't usually kind to those with a gluten intolerance. But since you're the best, whip up this meat-loaded shepherd's pie for your GF friends and family.
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Christmas is almost here! We are joyous as we light the pink candle on this Gaudete Sunday or Sunday of Joy! Christ is almost here! But who is Christ? Today's readings tell us. In the first reading from Isaiah, we read about the Spirit of God being part of someone. This someone is anointed and will bring glad tidings to those in poverty. This someone will be there for those who are heart broken; will free those in captivity and minister to all. So who is this someone? Well this "someone" is none other than Jesus Himself. As a matter of fact, Jesus took this very text and read it at the synagogue. It got Him into trouble as the religious teachers of His day became upset when He said that the words of Isaiah were fulfilled in Him (Luke 4:17-21). They thought He was blaspheming and were about to beat Him up, so to speak. This is understandable. How many of us would raise an eyebrow if someone reads Scripture and claims it was referring to him or her? We would think of this person as insane.
Finally in the Gospel, we read more about Jesus' cousin John the Baptist. The reading tells us that John came to prepare the way for Christ. He cries out in the desert preparing the way for Jesus. During this preparation, he offered a symbolic form of Baptism using water ( Ezekiel 36:24-27). Today we are also in preparation for the coming of Christ, not only on Christmas, but also in the end of time. However, we are joyous. We cry out "maranatha" and hope for the return of the Savior of the world. The return of Christ is a joyous occasion even though it entails judgment. If we follow what needs to be done, then there is no need to panic or be fearful of this day. Christianity is about joy! Nothing gets us down not even the pressures of this world. We are an "alleluia" people who proclaim Christ as the light and hope of this broken world. Gaudete Sunday reminds us of this joy. We are to take this joy and share it with the world. Like St. John the Baptist, we must prepare the way of the Lord once again though we have not seen Him ourselves as John did (1 Peter 1:8-9). People will think of us as crazy, but that is okay. They will see the joy in us and it will become contagious. God is all about joy, happiness, mercy and peace (Romans 14:17). This is why Pope Francis has stressed the fact that we must not have "funeral faces." We must smile and be happy. We must show visibly our joy in Christ Jesus. Whenever we see someone come out from a show or movie, we can get a sense of how good that show or movie was based on the face of those exiting. The same with our faith. Outsiders will get an idea how our Christian faith is based on how we present it outwardly. If we come out of Mass with gloomy faces, or pray as if we were doing it out of obligation, then outsiders will see us as miserable sheep. This will not attract them. Our faith must be joyous and welcoming so as to prepare the world for Christ. We are an Advent people who prepare; we are a Lenten people who suffer, we are an Ordinary people who live by extraordinary faith, but we are an Easter people who live in the joy of Jesus.


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Angelina Jolie reveals how she became 'Maleficent'
By FIN Staff / 28 May 2014
Disney's latest epic adventure 'Maleficent' starring Angelina Jolie and Elle Fanning is set to hit theaters this week. The $180m blockbuster is Jolie's biggest onscreen role since her outing opposite Johnny Depp back in 2010 in 'The Tourist' which went on to gross $278m worldwide.
So far, the reviews for the movie have been positive, with critics noting that even older audiences may appreciate some of the deeper nuances of the film's characters. First-time director Robert Stromberg, who's visual effects work can be seen in 'Life of Pi', 'The Hunger Games' and '2012,' recently spoke about how he got involved with the film, and got an offer from Producer Joe Roth to come onboard.
As 'Maleficent' heads to theaters this week, Jolie reveals how she approached the character, and what it was like for her to work with Elle Fanning, playing her favorite Disney 'villain'.
Interview with Angelina Jolie
What attracted you to the role?
Angelina: I loved Maleficent when I was a little girl; she was my favorite Disney character. I was afraid of her and I loved her. So, when I'd heard rumors that there might be a Maleficent movie, I asked around to find out what was going on. Then I got a call asking if I was interested and I said absolutely. I said I loved the idea of it but I didn't know how one could turn that idea into a film because how could you make a film about somebody who curses a baby and what kind of film is that going to be? I said yes, but I didn't really think they'd be able to figure it out. And then they did.
When you first read the script, what did you think?
Angelina: I was really moved by the script from first reading. It was like uncovering a great mystery. We all know the story of "Sleeping Beauty" and we all know Maleficent and what happened at the christening because we've all grown up with that. But what we've never known is, what happened before?
What are some of the things that we can expect?
Angelina: People will see that she's the same wicked Maleficent. What I loved about the original Maleficent when I was little was that she had a wicked sense of fun. She enjoyed being evil and she reveled in it. She still gets to do that and she will satisfy, hopefully, the people that, like myself, are fans of the original. But you get to learn more about her and how she became evil.
I think that audiences will approach the christening scene differently. When you know what you know about her, by the time you get to the christening, if we've done it right, you may be on her side, which, if we can pull it off, would be extraordinary. Maleficent has a strong sense of justice; she has a strong heart and a strong sense of what she thinks is right and wrong and then she loses her way.
What were some of the ideas you brought to this character?
Angelina: I wanted to make sure we didn't lose her sense of wicked fun because I think it's a very beautiful story. It's kind of a different but classic fairy tale and it has a lot of heart. We want to revel in that and that was very important for me as well as that she was somebody that was relatable.
When I first read the script, I was very moved by it, so I sat my girls down and told them the real story of Maleficent. Then the next day, my little boy got into a fight with one of my daughters because he was saying, "Maleficent's evil. She's scary and she's evil." And my daughter was saying, "You don't understand. You don't know everything." I thought that was very interesting. Don't we all wish we could say, "But you don't know everything. You don't know me completely; you don't see the full picture." So when I heard my little girls defending her, I thought that this would be a character that I would hope that young girls and boys would see and would relate to.
I hope the girls, especially, will see the importance of having a sense of justice and a sense of what's fair and what's worth fighting for. They'll see that they can be warriors and at the same time soft and feminine and deeply feeling, with all the complexities women have.
Has your understanding of the character changed since playing her?
Angelina: It changed all the way through the filming because she's taught me a lot. Maleficent is certainly one of the most difficult characters I've ever played because she represents all sides of what it is to be human, even though she is not. She was a very innocent youth with those kinds of qualities that you see in a lot of young people today where they're very passionate about environmental causes or the world or politics. Then she gets beaten down by betrayal and becomes quite dark and loses her humanity completely and then has to find it again.
For me, the journey of playing her has been much heavier, much more emotional, and much more difficult an experience than I expected. There's a part of me that plays big fun roles, but never this big. She's slightly crazy, extremely vibrant, a little wicked and has a big sense of humor, so she's quite full on. It's one of those characters that, for me, you couldn't do halfway.
Tell us who Stefan is in the story and how your relationship changes.
Angelina: Stefan is a human boy who Maleficent meets in the moors when she's young. They become best friends but as they grow up, the way they view the world changes and they have very different opinions. They both, at different times in the story, go very dark. They end up becoming enemies. Maleficent ultimately finds her humanity again and Stefan doesn't.
Tell us who Diaval is.
Angelina: Diaval is the most complicated character to explain. Diaval is a bird that Maleficent turns into a man because she needs someone to fly for her at a certain point. She then uses her powers to turn him into many other things, depending on what she needs. So this character, played by Sam Riley, is, on occasion, a bird, a wolf, a horse, or whatever animal she needs.
I think, especially for children, it's amazing to have this character that transforms into all these different personalities and all these different things. But they have a very bizarre relationship. At first Maleficent's quite controlling over him and then he tries to stand up to her and they bicker a lot. They're like a weird married couple that watches Aurora as she grows up. Maleficent has a disdain for Aurora and everything that she represents and Diaval's a little more nurturing.
What do you hope the film will bring audiences?
Angelina: Everybody involved is hoping to bring audiences the feeling that we've respected the classic film and if they loved the classic, we've tried to bring them what they've remembered and loved about this story. But we've tried to enhance it and also make it beautiful and touching. We hope that audiences care about the characters, Aurora and Maleficent and Stefan and everybody involved; whether they love them or hate them at moments, that somehow they deeply know them and they're deep, good characters.
But we also hope to bring a real world that they've never seen before and also action sequences and everything audiences want in a film. You have to have romance and you have to have action and you have to have stunning sets and you have to have a story you care about and a great script and you have to have surprises and you have to have all of it for it to work.
Tell us about your daughter in the film and how she got the role
Angelina: There are a lot of different Auroras in the movie. There's a baby Aurora, whom I've shot scenes with. I tried to be as nice as I possibly could, but the way I look as Maleficent just scares babies, so this little, teeny, sweet baby is traumatized by me every time she sees me. She gives this very furrowed brow and then within a matter of minutes she's crying. When crewmembers brought their young kids almost always they would cry and run away from me, so we realized that the only four year old that would probably not run away from me was my own daughter. We had to put Vivienne in the movie because no other little kid would allow me to pick them up because I look so scary.
Has it been fun working with her?
Angelina: It has been fun but it's hard work. Kids want to do a scene once and they want to be done with it. They don't want to wear something that they don't want to wear and they don't want to smile when they don't feel like it. But Vivienne did, in the end, have a good time because we made it fun.
Who is Aurora in this film and what has it been like working with Elle Fanning?
Angelina: Elle is Aurora. From the moment I met her, she is just sunshine. She's a wonderful, sweet, intelligent young woman. Elle's such a capable actress and a very strong person, which is nice because this Aurora is not just in love with the flowers; she is elegant and beautiful and delicate and loving, but she's centered and she's quite an impressive young woman. Elle is bringing all of that and a great deal of emotional depth and her talent, as an actress, has really surprised me. She's great.
Who are the pixies in the movie?
Angelina: The pixies are three wonderful actresses, extraordinary actresses, who are playing the already famous pixies. You know them by color: the green, pink, and blue. Maleficent has a funny relationship with them because she hates them. I get to banter with them and especially Imelda Staunton, who is Knotgrass. So to actually be dressed in the horns and having my own crazy character moment and having her as a little fairy yelling at me in her crazy moment is one of the best crazy moments I've ever had on film. The three pixies are so funny together and certainly the comedic relief and the joy of the film.
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package com.alkaid.pearlharbor.net;

import java.util.LinkedList;
import java.util.Queue;
import java.util.concurrent.Semaphore;

import javax.websocket.RemoteEndpoint;
import javax.websocket.SendHandler;
import javax.websocket.SendResult;

import com.alkaid.pearlharbor.logger.LoggerSystem;
import com.alkaid.pearlharbor.logger.LoggerSystem.LogType;
import com.alkaid.pearlharbor.net.connection.IConnection;
import com.alkaid.pearlharbor.playersystem.Player;
import com.alkaid.pearlharbor.util.LifeCycle;
import com.alkaid.pearlharbor.util.NetStream;
import com.alkaid.pearlharbor.util.ServerConfig;

public class Token implements LifeCycle{

	private boolean bUsing = false;

	private RemoteEndpoint mRemoteEndpoint;
	private IConnection mConnection;
	private NetStream mNetStream;
	private Queue<IPacket> mSendMessageQueue;

//	private Byte[] mReadBuffer;
//	private int mReadBufferOffset;
//
//	private Byte[] mWriteBuffer;
//	private int mWriteBufferOffset;

	private Semaphore tempSemaphore = null;

	private Player mBindPlayer;

	private boolean bCanSend = false;

	// function
	public Token()
	{
		bUsing = false;
		mRemoteEndpoint = null;
		mConnection = null;
		mNetStream = new NetStream(ServerConfig.MAX_SOCKET_BUFFER_SIZE * 2);
//		mReadBuffer = new Byte[ServerConfig.MAX_WEBSOCKET_BUFFER_SIZE * 2];
//		mReadBufferOffset = 0;
//		mWriteBuffer = new Byte[ServerConfig.MAX_WEBSOCKET_BUFFER_SIZE * 2];
//		mWriteBufferOffset = 0;

		tempSemaphore = new Semaphore(1);

		mBindPlayer = null;

		mSendMessageQueue = new LinkedList<IPacket>();
	}

	@Override
	public boolean init() {
		// TODO Auto-generated method stub

		bCanSend = true;

		return true;
	}

	@Override
	public void tick() {
		// TODO Auto-generated method stub

	}

	@Override
	public void destroy() {
		// TODO Auto-generated method stub

	}

	public void reset()
	{
		bUsing = false;
		mRemoteEndpoint = null;
		mConnection = null;
		mBindPlayer = null;

		if (tempSemaphore != null)
		{
			if (!tempSemaphore.tryAcquire())
			{
				tempSemaphore.release();
			}
		}

	}

	public void using()
	{
		bUsing = true;
	}

	public void unUsed()
	{
		bUsing = false;
	}

	public boolean isUsing()
	{
		return bUsing;
	}

	public void setEndpoint(RemoteEndpoint ep)
	{
		this.mRemoteEndpoint = ep;
	}

	public RemoteEndpoint getRemoteEndpoint()
	{
		return this.mRemoteEndpoint;
	}

	public void setConnection(IConnection ic)
	{
		this.mConnection = ic;
	}

	public IConnection getConnection()
	{
		return this.mConnection;
	}

	public NetStream getNetStream()
	{
		return mNetStream;
	}

	public void formatSendPacket(PacketFormat pf)
	{
		synchronized(mSendMessageQueue)
		{
			byte[] buffer = null;
			for (IPacket packet : mSendMessageQueue)
			{
				buffer = pf.GenerateBuffer(packet);

				mNetStream.PushOutStream(buffer);
			}

			mSendMessageQueue.clear();
		}
	}

	public void completeRead(byte[] data)
	{
		mNetStream.PushInStream(data);
	}

	public void completeRead(byte[] data, int length)
	{
		mNetStream.PushInStream(data, length);
	}

	public void completeSend(int length)
	{
		mNetStream.FinishedOut(length);
	}

	public void sendPacket(IPacket packet)
	{
		synchronized(mSendMessageQueue)
		{
			mSendMessageQueue.offer(packet);
		}
	}

	public void bindPlayer(Player player)
	{
		if (null == mBindPlayer)
		{
			mBindPlayer = player;
		}
		else
		{
			// cause error, this token has a player
			LoggerSystem.error(LogType.LOGIN, "This token already has a player!");
		}
	}

	public Player getPlayer()
	{
		return mBindPlayer;
	}

	public boolean getCanSend()
	{
		return bCanSend;
	}

	public void setCanSend(boolean arg)
	{
		bCanSend = arg;
	}
}

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