yeah a limited la/ny opening started early oct/late sept i am guessing because I
got in the city oct 7th.  saw the ad in the movie listing in the newspaper, and
walked by a theatre downtown that had it listed on the mylar.  surprised there
isn't much feedback anywhere.  might check imdb to see if anyone has left
reviews.
 
 
 
 


 





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It already came out in New York?  That's surprising.  Rotten Tomatoes has it
with a release date of November 30th.  I figured they'd try to get it out in
time for Halloween but maybe it's more of a holiday film.

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1208173-splice/#

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Splice was playing in NYC last week while I was there.  I didn't get a chance to
see it, but was wondering if anyone has and what their thoughts are.
 
It feels like it has been forever since a sarah polley movie came out
 
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Or at least wait until another month.  Everybody knows he can't perform in
October. *rimshot*

--- In sarahpolleyfanclub@yahoogroups.com, "chance_wayne2001"
<chance_wayne2001@...> wrote:
>
> I hope Sarah Polley never stoops so low as to bed A-Roid! YECH!!!!
>
> --- In sarahpolleyfanclub@yahoogroups.com, "jhunter1976" <jhunter1976@> wrote:
> >
> > There's been a lot of speculation ever since these pictures were posted at
sarahpolley.org:
> >  http://www.sarahpolley.org/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=333
> > as to what they were talking about.  After talking to some people I've
narrowed it down to 4 possible topics:
> > A)  She's trying to get McConaughey's number
> > 2)  She's trying to get Yankees tickets
> > ?)  She's in step 9 of AA and is apologizing for dropping out of 'Almost
Famous' and launching Kate into a career that has included 'My Best Friend's
Girl' and 'You, Me, and Dupree'
> > ~)  BRIDE WARS 2
> >
>

I hope Sarah Polley never stoops so low as to bed A-Roid! YECH!!!!

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> There's been a lot of speculation ever since these pictures were posted at
sarahpolley.org:
>  http://www.sarahpolley.org/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=333
> as to what they were talking about.  After talking to some people I've
narrowed it down to 4 possible topics:
> A)  She's trying to get McConaughey's number
> 2)  She's trying to get Yankees tickets
> ?)  She's in step 9 of AA and is apologizing for dropping out of 'Almost
Famous' and launching Kate into a career that has included 'My Best Friend's
Girl' and 'You, Me, and Dupree'
> ~)  BRIDE WARS 2
>

Some new 'Splice' clips with interviews from quietearth.com:

http://www.quietearth.us/articles/2009/10/11/Guillermo-del-Toro-speaks-in-interv\
iews-and-new-footage-for-SPLICE

There's been a lot of speculation ever since these pictures were posted at
sarahpolley.org:
  http://www.sarahpolley.org/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=333
as to what they were talking about.  After talking to some people I've narrowed
it down to 4 possible topics:
A)  She's trying to get McConaughey's number
2)  She's trying to get Yankees tickets
?)  She's in step 9 of AA and is apologizing for dropping out of 'Almost Famous'
and launching Kate into a career that has included 'My Best Friend's Girl' and
'You, Me, and Dupree'
~)  BRIDE WARS 2

Writer is Québécois playwright Michel Marc Bouchard.

http://www.hs.fi/kulttuuri/artikkeli/Sarah+Polley+p%C3%A4%C3%A4osaan+Mika+Kauris\
m%C3%A4en+Kristiina-elokuvassa/1135249310042
(in Finnish, but with a nice new pic)


--- In sarahpolleyfanclub@yahoogroups.com, maestroshelly98 <no_reply@...> wrote:
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> She will be playing 17th century Queen Kristina of Sweden.
>
> http://www.hollywoodnorthreport.com/article.php?Article=7550
>

She will be playing 17th century Queen Kristina of Sweden.

http://www.hollywoodnorthreport.com/article.php?Article=7550

Canuck filmmakers contemplate our place in the global puzzle TheStar.com
September 04, 2009
Peter Howell
Toronto Star Movie Critic

In Night Mayor of Winnipeg, Guy Maddin's zany tribute to Canadian film, an
immigrant inventor broadcasts random images of curling stones, grain elevators
and lumberjacks from sea to shining sea.

"I show Canada to itself!" he exclaims.

Police want to shut down the inventor's "telemelodium" machine, because his
"peculiar truth" is too much for the state to handle. He seeks to unify a land
determined to remain divided.

He's an outsider, which makes him right at home amongst this year's Canadian
films at the Toronto International Film Festival, which kicks off Thursday and
continues through Sept. 19.

Outsiders stand apart from their family, their coworkers, their country or even
themselves because of their irregular situation or disposition. In almost every
case, they're struggling with this and seeking change.

As Canadians, we instinctively understand this. As a nation of immigrants from
all over the world, we are destined – some would say doomed – to forever feel
like strangers in the land that know-it-all scribbler Voltaire famously
dismissed as "a few acres of snow."

Our awkward fit in the global puzzle, our peculiar maple leaf-shaped peg
hammered into a conventional round hole, may just be our most defining
characteristic, as is our yearning to fit in regardless.

Consciously or otherwise, our filmmakers pick up on this.

"The outsider will always have the potential to be compellingly cinematic," says
Maddin, a self-described "filmic outsider" whose madcap melodramas are
deliriously, hilariously weird. "Perhaps Canadian cinema, while seeking to
empathize, has chanced upon this axiom."

The quintessential Canuck outsider was the late Toronto pianist Glenn Gould,
whose complicated existence is the subject of Genius Within: The Inner Life of
Glenn Gould by Michèle Hozer and Peter Raymont.

"Themes of solitude and isolation were very much part of Gould's world and I
think that Canada offered him a very unique perspective to explore those
themes," Hozer says. "Another reason may be that Canadians don't seem so caught
up in the celebrity culture and therefore give space and privacy to artists."

The vastness of Canada contributes to the outsider instinct. Peter Mettler makes
huge swaths of Alberta seem like an alien planet in Petropolis: Aerial
Perspectives on the Alberta Tar Sands. The fluid flyover of one of the world's
biggest and most invasive oil projects is done almost silently, with a minimal
voiceover accompanying its images. Produced by Greenpeace Canada, the
documentary finds both horror and strange beauty in man's capacity to force
nature to bend to his skewed vision.

In Carl Bessai's Cole, a CNR train chugging through the dead-end B.C. town of
Lytton (population: 350) seems like a rebuke to the film's title protagonist,
played by Richard de Klerk. The train is going places. Cole, a gas jockey with
ambitions to be a writer, feels as if he's going nowhere, but everybody else in
town is happy to remain rooted.

Timothy Olyphant's Dick in Gary Yates' High Life wanted to be a lawyer growing
up. Instead he's a morphine addict, ex-con and conspirator in an ATM heist you
just know isn't going to go as planned. Dick just wasn't cut out for this world.

Neither was teenager Hubert in Xavier Dolan's J'ai tué ma mère (I Killed My
Mother), which comes to TIFF after winning three awards at Cannes. Hubert can't
get along at home or school, and he wishes things were different: "Why can't I
be like the others?" he asks.

Rob Stefaniuk's Suck and Reg Harkema's Leslie, My Name is Evil both feature
nerds who feel left out because they're not part of the nightmare that surrounds
them.

Suck stars Stefaniuk as the leader of a no-account Canuck rock band. He starts
to feel jealous when vampires put the bite on his bandmates, but continue to
treat him like the loser he is.

Leslie, My Name is Evil returns to the Manson Family slayings of 1969 for a
history lesson mashed up with romance and political satire. Christian chemist
Perry (Gregory Smith) finds himself falling for Manson knife girl Leslie Van
Houten (Kristen Hager) because she makes him feel like he belongs in her warped
world.

Speaking of warped worlds, Woody Harrelson's title hero in Peter Stebbings's
Defendor believes he's living in a comic book. He's a vigilante superhero
wannabe in Hamilton, Ont., who traverses the mean streets in a costume made of
tights, a helmet and that all-purpose Canadian tool: duct tape.

Sexual inadequacy is the dividing line between normal and abnormal for the
outsider heroes of Sook-Yin Lee's Year of the Carnivore and Bruce Sweeney's
Excited.

In Year of the Carnivore, mall supermarket security guard Sammy (Cristin
Milioti), starts giggling whenever a guy touches her. It's a comedy, but Sammy
is serious and feeling singled out.

Excited addresses premature ejaculation through the sad-sack case of Kevin (Cam
Cronin), a Vancouver golf course owner. Everybody else seems to be getting all
the sex they want; why can't Kevin?

Director Sweeney has the answer: "Kevin has to confront and overcome his
inadequacy in order to get love. That's the struggle – to not be an outsider to
oneself."

Nowhere do Canadians feel more like outsiders than when they travel outside of
Canada. That's driven home in three films about Canucks abroad: Matthew
Bissonnette's Passenger Side, Ruba Nadda's Cairo Time and Dilip Mehta's Cooking
With Stella.

Passenger Side is a daylong road trip by two expatriate Canadian brothers in Los
Angeles, as they seek to navigate the city and their fractious family issues.
When one of them gets the finger from an angry American, he accuses the guy of
being racist against Canadians.

Patricia Clarkson makes a sensuous trip to Egypt as the lonely wife of a
Canadian diplomat in Cairo Time, a serene comedy of mid-life awakening. She's a
stranger both to Egyptians and her own husband.

Culture and family clashes also animate Cooking With Stella, featuring Don
McKellar and Lisa Ray as Canadian diplomats posted to New Delhi. They discover
that Canadian values, just like Canadian cooking, don't easily adapt to their
pragmatic new land.

Canadian documentary filmmakers are often attracted to subjects about people who
do things in their own unique way. Brigitte Berman's Hugh Hefner: Playboy,
Activist and Rebel looks at the bunny boss who realized there was a sexual
revolution to build – and money to be made – by catering to the sexual fantasies
of ordinary men with Playboy magazine.

Winnipeg-born Leanne Pooley, currently based in New Zealand, finds outsiders
times two in The Topp Twins, which TIFF programmer Jane Schoettle describes as a
salute to "the world's only yodelling, lesbian, country-and-western playing
artists."

Here's some irony for you: Atom Egoyan has built a career out of being outside
the Hollywood system, but with his new drama, Chloe, he reportedly embraces the
mainstream like never before. It was unscreened at press time, so we'll have to
see about that.

But anyone nostalgic for Egoyan's old outré ways will find them in The Adjuster,
his 1991 film about an insurance adjuster at odds with his clients and his
world. It's screening in TIFF's Canadian Open Vault.

The outsiders of Canuck film, Maddin further reflects, give regular Canadians a
chance to live vicariously through the strange behaviour of others.

"Privations make great stories," he says, "but of course not such great life
experiences."

http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/TIFF/article/690803

...And make a movie about the Republic of Madawaska
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Republic of Madawaska
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	 1827â€"1842  â†'


Location of Republic of Madawaska
Municipalities of Madawaska County
Capital  Fort Kent, Maine
Language(s)  English, French
Government  Republic
Leader  John Baker
History
  - Independence declared  August 10, 1827
  - Webster-Ashburton Treaty saw the republic divided between New Brunswick and
Maine  August 9, 1842

The Republic of Madawaska (French: République du Madawaska) was a small,
unrecognized state in the northwest corner of Madawaska County, New Brunswick
(also known as the "New Brunswick Panhandle") and adjacent areas of Aroostook
County in the American state of Maine and of Quebec. The word "Madawaska" comes
from the Mi'kmaq words madawas (porcupine) and kak (place). Thus, the Madawaska
is "the country of the porcupine".[1] The Madawaska River which flows into the
Saint John River at Edmundston, New Brunswick and Madawaska, Maine flows through
the region.

The origins of the unorganized republic lie in the Treaty of Paris (1783), which
established the border between the United States and the British North American
colonies. The Madawaska region remained in dispute between Britain and the
United States until 1842.

In 1817, an American settler, John Baker, arrived in the region. Baker
petitioned the state of Maine for inclusion in the state in 1825. On 4 July
1827, Baker and his wife, Sophie Rice, raised an "American" flag sewn by Sophie,
on the west of the junction of the Meruimticook (now Baker Brook, after him) and
Saint John Rivers. This area is now Fort Kent, Maine. Curiously, the flag
reportedly designed by Sophie was identical to the current "Flag of the
Republic".[2]

On August 10 of that year, Baker and others announced their intention to declare
the Republic of Madawaska. On that day, the British magistrate confiscated
Baker's "American" flag. Baker was arrested by the British on September 25 for
conspiracy and sedition. Ultimately, Baker was fined £25 and jailed for two
months, or until the fine was paid.[2]

This set off a diplomatic incident, which led to arbitration by the King of the
Netherlands. His decision in 1831 was rejected by Maine. After the undeclared
Aroostook War (1838â€"39), the United States and the United Kingdom signed the
Websterâ€"Ashburton Treaty on August 9, 1842, finally settling the boundary
question.

According to a pamphlet entitled "The Republic of Madawaska" and published at
Edmundston, "The myth of the 'Republic of Madawaska' (because it is not a true
Republic in a political sense) draws its origins from an answer given to a
French official on a tour of inspection during the troubled times by an old
Madawaska colonist. Thinking the official a little too inquisitive, he said 'I
am a citizen of the Republic of Madawaska' with all the force of an old Roman
saying 'I am a citizen of Rome,' and the pride of a Londoner declaring 'I am a
British subject.' "

The Republic of Madawaska now exists only in the hearts of the inhabitants of
this legendary republic, who proudly refer to themselves as brayons. A flag of
the republic was created in 1938, bearing an American eagle and an arc of six
red stars on a white field. This flag flies at the city hall of Edmundston, New
Brunswick, and at Madawaska festivals. The sitting mayor of Edmundston, the
largest municipality in the region, also assumes the honorary title of
"President of the Republic of Madawaska".

Popular Canadian author Will Ferguson includes a chapter on "The Republic of
Madawaska" in Beauty Tips from Moose Jaw: Travels in Search of Canada, his
award-winning anthology of poignant trans-Canadian vignettes.

Sarah ought to be playing the mother!

--- In sarahpolleyfanclub@yahoogroups.com, "jhunter1976" <jhunter1976@...>
wrote:
>
> Here's a look at the new Ramona movie.  Tough to judge this early but the
presence of Disney Channel stars can't be a good omen.  Hopefully they'll
finally release the 80's-Sarah version on DVD to coincide with the movie.  That
show kicked ass.  I wonder if that dude that sings at Ramona all the time will
still be going off to Iraq to dig for oil in the movie.  Yikes!
>
> http://www.etonline.com/news/2009/06/75620/
>

Yummy! Diane Kruger AND Sarah Polley. Hopefully, we'll get a good nude scene out
of one of them!

..mummingbirds


--- In sarahpolleyfanclub@yahoogroups.com, "jhunter1976" <jhunter1976@...>
wrote:
>
> Break out your messenger bags and horn-rimmed glasses it's film festival
season.  With major film festivals in Toronto, New York, Boston, etc. all
opening in the coming weeks September has become the big month for fests. 
Sarah's latest 'Mr. Nobody' is making the rounds with showings at the Venice and
Toronto Film Fests so check out your local festival.
>
>
http://www.ioncinema.com/news/id/4316/tiff_adds_mrnobody_antichrist_white_materi\
al_and_the_white_ribbon
>

Break out your messenger bags and horn-rimmed glasses it's film festival season.
With major film festivals in Toronto, New York, Boston, etc. all opening in the
coming weeks September has become the big month for fests.  Sarah's latest 'Mr.
Nobody' is making the rounds with showings at the Venice and Toronto Film Fests
so check out your local festival.

http://www.ioncinema.com/news/id/4316/tiff_adds_mrnobody_antichrist_white_materi\
al_and_the_white_ribbon

If he was gay, why couldn't they have children?

--- In sarahpolleyfanclub@yahoogroups.com, maestroshelly98 <no_reply@...> wrote:
>
> Maybe she's in no hurry at the moment. (Plus, some couples just don't want
children.)
>
> --- In sarahpolleyfanclub@yahoogroups.com, "Gabriel Oak" <mummingbirds@>
wrote:
> >
> > Why don't they have any kids yet? Sarah said in a CBC interview around the
time she got married she wanted to have four.
> >
>

Here's a look at the new Ramona movie.  Tough to judge this early but the
presence of Disney Channel stars can't be a good omen.  Hopefully they'll
finally release the 80's-Sarah version on DVD to coincide with the movie.  That
show kicked ass.  I wonder if that dude that sings at Ramona all the time will
still be going off to Iraq to dig for oil in the movie.  Yikes!

http://www.etonline.com/news/2009/06/75620/

Maybe she's in no hurry at the moment. (Plus, some couples just don't want
children.)

--- In sarahpolleyfanclub@yahoogroups.com, "Gabriel Oak" <mummingbirds@...>
wrote:
>
> Why don't they have any kids yet? Sarah said in a CBC interview around the
time she got married she wanted to have four.
>

I live in Maine (the northern end). "Down East", to us, is coastal Maine (from
circa Bar Harbour south). Boston isn't really "Down East" at all.

--- In sarahpolleyfanclub@yahoogroups.com, "Gabriel Oak" <mummingbirds@...>
wrote:
>
> Boston Creme donuts also has a bearing on Sarah, as in an episode of THE ROAD
TO AVONLEA, Aunt Hetty mentions that they have a relative "Down East" in Boston.
>
> I always thought "Down East" was Maine, but I'm not from PEI.

Why don't they have any kids yet? Sarah said in a CBC interview around the time
she got married she wanted to have four.

Boston Creme donuts also has a bearing on Sarah, as in an episode of THE ROAD TO
AVONLEA, Aunt Hetty mentions that they have a relative "Down East" in Boston.

I always thought "Down East" was Maine, but I'm not from PEI.

--- In sarahpolleyfanclub@yahoogroups.com, "jhunter1976" <jhunter1976@...>
wrote:
>
> This is the last breakfast related post I'll make since it's getting tired and
somebody just emailed me and said it was idiotic but I thought this was a very
well done and informative piece on Tim Horton's from the CBS morning show.  It
is a Canadian cornerstone but there are several mentions of Boston Creme donuts.
That's the kind of unity we need these days!
>
>
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/06/07/sunday/main5069548.shtml?tag=contentMa\
in;contentBody
>
>
> --- In sarahpolleyfanclub@yahoogroups.com, maestroshelly98 <no_reply@> wrote:
> >
> > Named after and started by a hockey player (the late Tim Horton).
> >
> > There are a few in the US--mainly in states bordering Canada (there are
quite a few in my neck of the woods). Personally, I love Tim's. Yummy donuts
(not just maple glaze!) and their capuccinos are delish.
> >
> > --- In sarahpolleyfanclub@yahoogroups.com, "jhunter1976" <jhunter1976@>
wrote:
> > >
> > > I just read an article in the Globe about that place!  Named after a
hockey player right?  I want to try it but I don't see how a maple glaze can
stand up to a Boston Creme.  Do you guys have Krispy Kreme?  Overrated.
> >
>

This is the last breakfast related post I'll make since it's getting tired and
somebody just emailed me and said it was idiotic but I thought this was a very
well done and informative piece on Tim Horton's from the CBS morning show.  It
is a Canadian cornerstone but there are several mentions of Boston Creme donuts.
That's the kind of unity we need these days!

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/06/07/sunday/main5069548.shtml?tag=contentMa\
in;contentBody


--- In sarahpolleyfanclub@yahoogroups.com, maestroshelly98 <no_reply@...> wrote:
>
> Named after and started by a hockey player (the late Tim Horton).
>
> There are a few in the US--mainly in states bordering Canada (there are quite
a few in my neck of the woods). Personally, I love Tim's. Yummy donuts (not just
maple glaze!) and their capuccinos are delish.
>
> --- In sarahpolleyfanclub@yahoogroups.com, "jhunter1976" <jhunter1976@> wrote:
> >
> > I just read an article in the Globe about that place!  Named after a hockey
player right?  I want to try it but I don't see how a maple glaze can stand up
to a Boston Creme.  Do you guys have Krispy Kreme?  Overrated.
>

I'd squeel with joy if she still started the day by cracking a hard boiled egg
on her head and shouting 'WHACK!' at her husband before eating it.



--- In sarahpolleyfanclub@yahoogroups.com, "jonchopwood" <jonchopwood@...>
wrote:
>
> She was listed as a meat eater who kept baby back ribs in the fridge in the
year 2000, at the time "Go" came out. Vegetarianism likely was a twixt Avonlea
and the 21st Century thing.
>
> --- In sarahpolleyfanclub@yahoogroups.com, "jhunter1976" <jhunter1976@> wrote:
> >
> > Pancakes, maybe?  I heard somewhere she's a vegetarian so she's probably not
tossing down Jimmie Dean's.  My guess is a bowl of Honey Smacks and a cup of
coffee.
> >
> > --- In sarahpolleyfanclub@yahoogroups.com, "chance_wayne2001"
<chance_wayne2001@> wrote:
> > >
> > > Is she just a regular Canadian gal, or too chi-chi to stop in for a maple
glazed donut? Do you think she uses whitener in her coffee, or just drinks it
straight up? Something tells me she might be into soy milk.
> > >
> > > Do you realize that Canadians eat more donuts, per capita, than any other
country, including The States? Take that, Homer Simpson! So much for U.S.A., Jr.
> > >
> >
>

Canada's Munro wins international Booker prize

Canadian author Alice Munro has won the Man Booker International Prize, an award
honouring her lifetime of work.

The nearly $103,000 prize, which is awarded every two years, honours a living
fiction author writing in English, or whose work is widely translated into
English.

"Alice Munro is mostly known as a short story writer and yet she brings as much
depth, wisdom and precision to every story as most novelists bring to a lifetime
of novels," the three-judge panel said in a statement.

"To read Alice Munro is to learn something every time that you never thought of
before."

This year marks the third edition of the young prize, which was founded in 2004
and has been awarded to Nigeria's Chinua Achebe and Ismail Kadare of Albania.

Authors E.L. Doctorow, V.S Naipaul and Joyce Carol Oates were also among this
year's finalists.

Munro, 77, is among the most accomplished writers on the Canadian literature
scene and the author behind short story collections such as Lives of Girls and
Women, The Love of a Good Woman, Runaway and Hateship, Friendship, Courtship,
Loveship, Marriage. She was also nominated for the international Booker in 2007.

Munro, who is originally from the small southwestern Ontario community of
Wingham, has garnered praise for her tales of women living in small towns.

She is a multiple winner of both the Governor General's Literary Awards and the
Giller Prize.

http://www.cbc.ca/arts/story/2009/05/26/munro-booker.html

This is an old, long, radio interview Sarah did for NPR in 2003.  The lady
interviewing her sounds like she's reading her Wikipedia page for every
question.  But if you've got 25 minutes or so to kill it has some very
interesting insights I had not heard before from child actors to airport
security.

http://www.npr.org/templates/dmg/dmg.php?prgCode=FA&showDate=09-Oct-2003&segNum=\
2&NPRMediaPref=WM

It seems to me that while Canadian English does have some similarities to US
English, there's still a bit of "proper" (read: the King's/Queen's) English in
there, too. That said, they do have some of their own words and phrases.

Some years ago, CBC aired a doc about the various nuances of Canadian English.
It's available on DVD through cbcshop.ca...

http://www.cbcshop.ca/CBC/shopping/product.aspx?Product_ID=ETDOC00078&Variant_ID\
=256054&lang=en-CA

--- In sarahpolleyfanclub@yahoogroups.com, "jonchopwood" <jonchopwood@...>
wrote:
>
> Of course, in France, a translated book by a U.S. author is said to be
translated 'from the American.' I haven't seen any books by Margaret Atwood or
other Canucks in French translation.
>
> Anybody have anything to say about the differences between "American" & the
English spoken in Canuckistan?

Of course, in France, a translated book by a U.S. author is said to be
translated 'from the American.' I haven't seen any books by Margaret Atwood or
other Canucks in French translation.

Anybody have anything to say about the differences between "American" & the
English spoken in Canuckistan?

April 30, 2009
Op-Ed Columnist
Of Loos and Language
By ROGER COHEN, N.Y. Times

A poet friend, Vincent Katz, was over for dinner the other night and asked me
with a twinkle in his eye if I was "knackered." Katz came to poetry via rock 'n
roll, and to Oxford via the University of Chicago, and along the way he picked
up some English vernacular.

"Knackered?"

The word — meaning more than tired, beat — transported me to the England of my
youth, a place of hissing gas fires, metered hot water, contempt for "the
Continent," schoolboys in corduroy shorts, crows over the rubbish dumps,
skinheads on the tube, Pink Floyd in Hyde Park, soggy leaves and solid fog.

Aging is like that. The memories pile up. More things are done for the last time
than the first. It doesn't take much to be transported.

Yes, I was knackered — and suddenly nostalgic for the churning clouds of London,
the damp mustiness of pre-prosperous England, and the mist hovering in an Oxford
dawn.

I dug out a diary I kept at university in the early '70s and found this: "Sunday
morning: the allotments dotted with stooping figures. Steaming water poured over
gleaming cars. The papers. This England."

And this:

Loose summer dresses catching in the crotch
The leather boys stick together
With coffee on the benches.
Tulips dying gape open-mouthed
At the fruit rotting after lunch.

That England's gone, of course, it's had its glossy makeover like everywhere
else. Gastropubs shun bangers and lumpy mash and even Leeds is trendy.

But language is another story. Katz told me how uncomfortable he felt saying
"loo" for the first time. The unthinkable alternative was to ask some bloke for
the "bathroom."

What for, mate?

Katz read classics at St. John's College (viewed as a too-beautiful refuge of
sporty underachievers by my own Balliol) and he summed up the experience this
way: "I began to realize (what I should have known all along) that I was living
in a completely different culture. It was just as alien to me as France would
have been, or Spain, or Italy, or Germany. There is the illusion that we speak
the same language, but we really don't."

Yes, the illusion is there. The United States freed itself from Britain in a
revolution but had to opt for subtler forms of sedition when it came to the
language.

I remember getting in a row with an editor and friend, Richard Berry, after
writing "car park." No such thing in American, Berry said. Come on! It's where
you put your car, Richard. Nope, he insisted, parking lot.

I was miffed. I was gutted. (Look that up, Richard.)

"Well done, love," I told my 14-year-old son the other day. "Well done, love!"
he parroted in that scorn-dripping tone teenagers reserve for their Paleolithic
parents, weaving an English patter into his Brooklynese. "You mean: Good job!"

Quite.

Jobs, the work ethic — no escape from them in the United States, where finishing
a meal in a restaurant prompts the death-penalty-meriting: "Are you still
working on that?" When I took an English test to become a U.S. citizen a few
years back, one of the three sentences in my dictation was: "I plan to work very
hard every day."

Quite.

America works, every day, its youthful ambition still boundless. England, having
seen everything go pear-shaped, relieved of the burden of running a ropey world,
boozes and says it's sorry and prefers a lie-in.

"Oxford was the only place I've heard someone use `mayn't' completely casually,"
Katz wrote. "I began to long for those usages — grammatically unimpeachable and
stylistically extravagant — and be on the lookout for them. I had a friend who
used `Crumbs!' as an exclamation, something I'd only ever read in books or seen
in movies."

Crumbs! It's been yonks since I heard that or peered through the windscreen over
the bonnet at lorries on the motorway. I thought I'd left England behind — its
rucksacks and trousers and chemists and fortnights — you know, the full Anglo
monty — until I got too knackered to resist.

Katz continued: "After a year or so of tuning into the subtleties of the English
language, something quite remarkable occurred — I began to perceive many
different layers of expression in ways the British communicate. Where they are
often criticized by Americans for being cold, I began to see endless expressions
of warmth. Where they might be considered narrow-minded, I found instead some of
the most open, progressive minds I have encountered."

English tolerance can be as uplifting as American idealism, that many-faceted
and quizzical "quite" seeing U.S. "hope."

Since my student walks to the Isis past the wet autumn leaves smoking rather
than burning, English has gone global. In fact, the world's lingua franca is now
bad English. It's strange then that a U.S. president who speaks good English,
far better than his predecessor, seems able to communicate with that world. This
may even be Barack Obama's biggest achievement in his first 100 days.

Brilliant!

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/30/opinion/30iht-edcohen.html?em=&pagewanted=prin\
t

She was listed as a meat eater who kept baby back ribs in the fridge in the year
2000, at the time "Go" came out. Vegetarianism likely was a twixt Avonlea and
the 21st Century thing.

--- In sarahpolleyfanclub@yahoogroups.com, "jhunter1976" <jhunter1976@...>
wrote:
>
> Pancakes, maybe?  I heard somewhere she's a vegetarian so she's probably not
tossing down Jimmie Dean's.  My guess is a bowl of Honey Smacks and a cup of
coffee.
>
> --- In sarahpolleyfanclub@yahoogroups.com, "chance_wayne2001"
<chance_wayne2001@> wrote:
> >
> > Is she just a regular Canadian gal, or too chi-chi to stop in for a maple
glazed donut? Do you think she uses whitener in her coffee, or just drinks it
straight up? Something tells me she might be into soy milk.
> >
> > Do you realize that Canadians eat more donuts, per capita, than any other
country, including The States? Take that, Homer Simpson! So much for U.S.A., Jr.
> >
>

Named after and started by a hockey player (the late Tim Horton).

There are a few in the US--mainly in states bordering Canada (there are quite a
few in my neck of the woods). Personally, I love Tim's. Yummy donuts (not just
maple glaze!) and their capuccinos are delish.

--- In sarahpolleyfanclub@yahoogroups.com, "jhunter1976" <jhunter1976@...>
wrote:
>
> I just read an article in the Globe about that place!  Named after a hockey
player right?  I want to try it but I don't see how a maple glaze can stand up
to a Boston Creme.  Do you guys have Krispy Kreme?  Overrated.

Pancakes, maybe?  I heard somewhere she's a vegetarian so she's probably not
tossing down Jimmie Dean's.  My guess is a bowl of Honey Smacks and a cup of
coffee.

--- In sarahpolleyfanclub@yahoogroups.com, "chance_wayne2001"
<chance_wayne2001@...> wrote:
>
> Is she just a regular Canadian gal, or too chi-chi to stop in for a maple
glazed donut? Do you think she uses whitener in her coffee, or just drinks it
straight up? Something tells me she might be into soy milk.
>
> Do you realize that Canadians eat more donuts, per capita, than any other
country, including The States? Take that, Homer Simpson! So much for U.S.A., Jr.
>

I just read an article in the Globe about that place!  Named after a hockey
player right?  I want to try it but I don't see how a maple glaze can stand up
to a Boston Creme.  Do you guys have Krispy Kreme?  Overrated.

--- In sarahpolleyfanclub@yahoogroups.com, "chance_wayne2001"
<chance_wayne2001@...> wrote:
>
> Is she just a regular Canadian gal, or too chi-chi to stop in for a maple
glazed donut? Do you think she uses whitener in her coffee, or just drinks it
straight up? Something tells me she might be into soy milk.
>
> Do you realize that Canadians eat more donuts, per capita, than any other
country, including The States? Take that, Homer Simpson! So much for U.S.A., Jr.
>