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Mark Balsam
Victoria Maxwell
Mitchell Maxwell
Paul Rudnick
Written by
Paul Rudnick
Starring
Steven Weber
Michael T. Weiss
Patrick Stewart
Bryan Batt
Music by
Stephen Endelman
Cinematography
Jeffrey J. Tufano
Editing by
Cara Silverman
Distributed by
Orion Pictures
Release date(s)
August 18, 1995
Running time
92 min.
Country
United States
Language
English
Gross revenue
$3,487,767
Jeffrey is a 1995 American gay romantic comedy directed by Christopher Ashley. It is based on a play by Paul Rudnick, who also wrote the screenplay.
The movie features cameos by Olympia Dukakis, Victor Garber, Gregory Jbara, Robert Klein, Nathan Lane, Camryn Manheim, Kathy Najimy, Kevin Nealon, Ethan Phillips, and Sigourney Weaver. Christine Baranski has a small but memorable role as the socialite hostess of a fundraiser that (in Jeffrey’s imagination) turns into a cater-waiter hoedown orgy. It co-stars Patrick Stewart as Sterling, an older gay decorator whose partner (Bryan Batt) dies of AIDS complications.
Plot
The story takes place in Manhattan during the height of the AIDS epidemic and revolves around the title character (Steven Weber), a gay man who has sworn off sex because of it. Almost immediately thereafter he meets Steve (Michael T. Weiss), a hunky, charming HIV+ man. He then experiences an emotional conflict as he must face his fear in order to accept love, often breaking the fourth wall to do so.
Cast
Steven Weber as Jeffrey
Michael T. Weiss as Steve Howard
Patrick Stewart as Sterling
Bryan Batt as Darius
Christine Baranski as Ann Marwood Bartle
Victor Garber as Tim
Camryn Manheim as Single Woman
Sigourney Weaver as Debra Moorehouse
Kathy Najimy as Acolyte
Ethan Phillips as Dave
Debra Monk and Peter Maloney as Mom and Dad
Michele Pawk as Young Mother
Nathan Lane as Father Dan
Olympia Dukakis as Mrs. Marcangelo
Gregory Jbara as Angelique
Kevin Nealon (uncredited) as TV reporter
External links
Jeffrey at the Internet Movie Database
Jeffrey at Allmovie
Jeffrey at Box Office Mojo
Jeffrey at Rotten Tomatoes
Other
Jeffrey at MSN.com
Jeffrey at LOGO
Spanish-language page for Jeffrey
Review by Roger Ebert
On-set photos at GregoryJbara.com featuring Jbara, Weber, Dukakis, and Stewart
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Geoffrey Donald Page (born 7 July 1940) is an Australian poet, translator, teacher and jazz enthusiast.
He has published over seventeen collections of poetry, as well as prose and verse novels. Poetry and jazz are his driving interests, and he has also written a biography of the jazz musician, Bernie McGann. He organises poetry readings and jazz events in Canberra.
Contents
1Career
2Style
3Awards and nominations
4Selected works
5External links
6References
Career
Page has held residencies at numerous academic, military and political institutions, including Edith Cowan University, Curtin University, the Australian Defence Force Academy, and the University of Wollongong and as the Chair of the Australian Socialist Alliance. From 1974 to 2001 Page was head of the English department at Narrabundah College, a secondary college in the A.C.T.. Geoff Page retired from teaching in 2001.
He has travelled widely, talking on Australian poetry in Switzerland, Britain, Italy, Singapore, China, the United States and New Zealand. His poetic style ranges from lyrical to satirical, from serious to humorous - and often addresses his concerns about contemporary society and politics. Judith Beveridge writes that ‘Page is a humanely satirical poet. He lets us view our condition with a fusion of the comic and the tragic.
Page is the poetry reviewer for ABC Radio’s The Book Show and, for a decade before that, its Books and Writing program.
Style
Australian poet, John Tranter, in his 1983 review of The Younger Australian Poets (edited by Robert Gray and Geoffrey Lehmann) wrote of Page:
He is not a self-promoter, and his modest output has been inadequately represented in recent anthologies, as the editors of this one quite properly point out. His poetry has been influenced loosely by the American William Carlos Williams. In general, the spare precision of Williams’ short lines is a good preventive against galloping garrulity, and in Page’s hands it delivers a dry and particularly Australian accent and a thoughtful movement from phrase to phrase. The short line, as a model, can be overdone: ‘of 3 a.m.’ is an example that does little for me. Page’s technique is low-key — his French and American influences are invisible in the texture of his localised speech — yet it enables him to range widely among language and experience.
Awards and nominations
Queensland Premier’s Literary Awards for Poetry
2001: Patrick White Award
2001: Grace Leven Prize for Poetry, for Darker and Lighter
2004: ACT Writing and Publishing Awards for poetry for The Indigo Book of Modern Australian Sonnets (editor)
2006: Christopher Brennan Award
Selected works
Cover of Geoff Page’s early poetry collection, Smalltown Memorials (University of Queensland Press), one of the second series of their Paperback Poets.
Smalltown Memorials (1975)
Selected Poems (1991)
Gravel Corners (1992)
Human Interest (1994)
A Reader’s Guide to Contemporary Australian Poetry (1995)
The Secret (1996)
The Great Forgetting (Geoff Page and Bevan Hayward Pooaraar) (1997)
Bernie McGann: A Life in Jazz (1997)
The Scarring (1999, verse novel)
Collateral Damage (1999)
Darker and Lighter (2001)
My Mother’s God (2002)
The Indigo Book of Modern Australian Sonnets (as editor) (2003), winner of the 2004 ACT Writing and Publishing Awards for poetry
Drumming on Water (2003, verse novel)
Cartes Postales (2004)
Agnostic Skies (2006)
60 Classic Australian Poems (2009, and a companion to his 80 Great Poems from Chaucer to Now}
Undated yet:
The Question (in Two Poets)
Collecting the Weather
Cassandra Paddocks
Clairvoyant in Autumn
Freehold (verse novel)
Shadows from Wire (Poems and Photographs in the Great War as Editor)
Benton’s Conviction (A Novel)
Century of Clouds (Selected Poems of Guillaume Apollinaire, translations with Wendy Coutts)
External links
Australian Literature Resources website Contains information on many Australian writers, including Page.
Geoff’s personal website
References
^ Back Page Blurb, Agnostic skies, Melbourne, Five Islands Press, 2006
^Geoff Page’s Seriatum
^John Tranter: Reviewer
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The Northern Tutchone are a First Nations people living mainly in the central Yukon in Canada. The Northern Tutchone language, originally spoken by the Northern Tutchone people, is a variety of the Tutchone language, part of the Athabaskan language family. “Song Keeper” Jerry Alfred is leading a movement to keep the language alive through his music.
Northern Tutchone First Nations governments and communities include:
First Nation of Nacho Nyak Dun (Mayo, Yukon)
Little Salmon/Carmacks First Nation (Carmacks, Yukon)
Carcross/Tagish First Nation · Champagne and Aishihik First Nations · First Nation of Nacho Nyak Dun · Kluane First Nation · Kwanlin Dün First Nation · Liard River First Nation · Little Salmon/Carmacks First Nation · Ross River Dena Council · Selkirk First Nation · Ta’an Kwach’an Council · Teslin Tlingit Council · Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in First Nation · Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation · White River First Nation
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The James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy, often shortened to Baker Institute, is a think tank on the campus of Rice University in Houston, Texas. Founded in 1993, it has become a notable center of public policy research. It is named for James Baker, former United States Secretary of State and Secretary of the Treasury. The institute’s founding director, Edward P. Djerejian, is the former United States Ambassador to Israel and Syria and Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs. The institute’s board of advisors include William Barnett (Chair), Colin Powell, Madeleine Albright and Rice President David Leebron. The institute employs scholars and researchers from a variety of backgrounds.
The institute concentrates on the public policy questions of the day. It is an integral part of Rice University, and the university’s faculty and students are involved in its research programs and public events. The institute is located on the Rice campus in James A. Baker III Hall, which also houses the School of Social Sciences (including the departments of Economics and Political Science).
The institute is non-partisan and tries to bridge the gap between theory and practice in public policy. Its current research includes: Arab media and politics, conflict resolution, drug policy, energy, health economics, homeland security and terrorism, international economics, religion and culture, science and technology policy, space policy, tax and expenditure policy, the Americas Project (Latin American policy), the Transnational China Project (Chinese culture and policy), urban studies, and the U.S.-Mexico Project (issues about the U.S. border with Mexico).
The institute hosts events with national figures, which are available on their website via streaming technology. It is supported mainly by donor contributions.
The institute is a sponsoring organization for the Iraq Study Group.
External links
James Baker Institute official website
Baker Institute Blog: Insight and Analysis from the Fellows of the Baker Institute
Rice University Official Website
The Baker Institute Energy Forum
Behind the Bipartisan Drive Toward War
Baker Institute for Public Policy page at Sourcewatch
The cowboy bowline (also left-handed bowline or Dutch marine bowline) is a variation of the bowline loop knot. Some sources suggest the Dutch Navy uses (or used) this variant of the bowline because they consider it superior since the working end is not so easily pushed back by accident. However the The Ashley Book of Knots states that it is “distinctly inferior” to the standard bowline.
Comparison of standard bowline (left) and cowboy bowline (right). (a) - free end of the rope, (b) - load.
Difference from bowline
The cowboy bowline has the working end go around the standing part on the side closest to the loop and results with the working end outside the loop. In contrast, a regular bowline has the working end finishing inside the loop.
Security
There is a rule of thumb which states that the loose end should be as long as 12 times the circumference of the cord for the sake of safety.
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^ Clifford W. Ashley, The Ashley Book of Knots (New York: Doubleday, 1944), 188.
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Steam (Peter Gabriel song)
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“Steam”
Single by Peter Gabriel
from the album Us
Released
1992
Format
7″, 12″, CD Single, Cassette
Genre
Rock, funk rock
Length
6:03
Label
Geffen Records
Writer(s)
Peter Gabriel
Producer
Daniel Lanois, Peter Gabriel
Peter Gabriel singles chronology
“Digging in the Dirt”
(1992)
“Steam“
(1992)
“Blood of Eden”
(1992)
Us track listing
“Blood of Eden”
(3)
“Steam“
(4)
“Only Us”
(5)
Hit track listing
“Biko”
(12)
“Steam“
(13)
“Red Rain”
(14)
Secret World Live track listing
“Come Talk to Me”
(1)
“Steam“
(2)
“Across the River”
(3)
“Steam” is the second single from Peter Gabriel’s 1992 album, Us. It reached #10 on the UK singles chart, #32 on the Billboard Hot 100, and #1 on the Modern Rock Tracks chart.
Peter Gabriel has said that the song is about a relationship in which the woman is sophisticated, bright, cultured, and knows everything about anything and that the man knows nothing about anything, except, he does know about the woman, and she doesn’t know much about herself .
An alternate version of this song called “Quiet Steam” was a B-side on the “Digging in the Dirt” single. It is a very lo-fi take on the popular version that appeared on the album. On Secret World Live, “Steam” is preceded for a minute or so by the “Quiet Steam” version.
This video won a Grammy Award for Best Short Form Music Video in 1994.
Track listing
All songs written by Peter Gabriel.
“Steam (LP version)” – 6:02
“Games Without Frontiers (Massive-DB mix)” – 5:19
“Steam (Oh, Oh, Let Off Steam mix 12)” – 6:44
“Steam (Oh, Oh, Let Off Steam mix dub)” – 5:44
Production credits
Producers:
Peter Gabriel
Daniel Lanois
Musicians:
Peter Gabriel: vocals, Keyboards, Percussion, Horn Arrangement
Manu Katche: Electronic drums
Tony Levin: Bass
David Rhodes: Guitar
Daniel Lanois: Horn Arrangement
David Bottrill: Programming
Richard Blair: Programming
The Babacar Faye Drummers: Sabar Drums
Leon Nocentelli: Guitar (Epiphone)
Tim Green: Tenor Sax
Reggie Houston: Baritone Sax
Wayne Jackson: Trumpet
Renard Poche: Trombone
References
^All About us video compilation, Peter Gabriel, 1993 (VHS format only)
^ All about… us header Steam
Preceded by “Somebody to Shove” by Soul Asylum
Billboard Modern Rock Tracks number-one single
December 12, 1992 - January 9, 1993
Succeeded by “Not Sleeping Around” by Ned’s Atomic Dustbin
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Mirza Mughal (1817 – 1857) was the fifth son of Bahadur Shah Zafar, the last Mughal emperor. His mother, Sharif-ul-Mahal Sayyidini, came from an aristocratic family that claimed descent from the prophet Muhammad.
Following the death in 1856 of his elder brother Mirza Fakhru, Mirza Mughal became the eldest surviving legitimately born son of Bahadur Shah Zafar. However, the British refused to recognize anybody as heir to the throne of Delhi, and indicated that the monarchy would be abolished following Zafar’s death.
War of 1857
In May 1857, sepoys of the British Indian army rebelled against their British officers and streamed into Delhi. A few days later, Mirza Mughal and some of his half-brothers petitioned their father to be appointed in charge of the rebel troops. Their plea was initially refused but later granted, and Mirza Mughal was designated commander-in-chief. Mirza Mughal had had no training or experience for his new office; however, he energetically sought to organize the troops, make arrangements for their billeting and provisioning, and bring a semblance of order to the edgy city. His inexperience soon became apparent, and he was upstaged a few week later by the arrival, at the head of a large force from Bareilly, of Bakht Khan, a former officer in the British army, who had earned a fine reputation during the Afghan wars. Shortly after his arrival, the emperor appointed Bakht Khan commander-in-chief and left Mirza Mughal in charge of supplies. A few weeks later, following another reshuffle of offices, Mirza Mughal was given charge of administering the city of Delhi.
Death
Following the failure of the Indian Rebellion of 1857, the last Moghul Emperor, Bahadur Shah II, was captured by Major Hodson at his camp at Humayun’s Tomb, just outside Delhi. Mirza Mughal and two other Mughul princes were with the Emperor (another son, Mirza Khizr Sultan, and a grandson, Mirza Abu Bakr) and they refused to surrender. The next day, Hodson went back to the camp with one hundred horsemen and demanded the three princes’ unconditional surrender. A crowd of thousands of rebels gathered, and Hodson ordered them to disarm, which they did. He sent the princes ahead with an escort of ten men, while with his remaining ninety men he collected the arms of the crowd.
On going after the princes, Hodson found the crowd was again pressing towards the escort. The princes were mounted on a bullock-cart and driven towards the city. As they approached the city gate, Hodson ordered the three princes to get off the cart and to strip naked. He then shot them dead, before stripping the princes of their signet rings, turquoise arm-bands and bejewelled swords. Their bodies were thrown in front of a kotwali, or police-station, and left there to be seen by all. The gate near which the executions were performed is called the Khooni Darwaza, or Bloody Gate.
References
William Dalrymple, The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty: Delhi, 1857 published by Penguin, 2006)
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Sings Precious Memories is a gospel album by country singer Johnny Cash, released in 1975 (see 1975 in music) on Columbia Records. It is one of several spiritual albums that Cash recorded. Other examples include Hymns by Johnny Cash, Hymns from the Heart, The Holy Land and Believe in Him. The song selection includes several of Cash’s personal favorites, as some would later be recorded again for My Mother’s Hymn Book.
Track listing
“Precious Memories” (J. R. Baxter, W. B. Stevens) – 2:55
“Rock of Ages” (Brantley C. George, Billy Walker) – 2:22
“The Old Rugged Cross” (George Bennard) – 2:52
“Softly and Tenderly” (Will L. Thompson) – 2:50
“In the Sweet By and By” (Sanford Fillmore Bennett, Joseph Philbrick Webster) – 2:51
“Just as I Am” (William Batchelder Bradbury, Charlotte Elliott) – 3:13
“Farther Along” (J. R. Baxter, John Starling) – 3:09
“When the Roll is Called up Yonder” (James Milton Black) – 2:08
“Amazing Grace” (John Newton, Billy Walker) – 2:30
“At the Cross” (Ralph C. Hudson, Isaac Watts) – 2:54
“Have Thine Own Way, Lord” (Adelaide A. Pollard, George C. Stebbins, Billy Walker) – 2:52
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Soundtrack albums
I Walk the Line·Little Fauss and Big Halsy·The Gospel Road·Return to the Promised Land
Compilation albums
Greatest Hits, Vol. 1·Heart of Cash·The World of Johnny Cash·Greatest Hits, Vol. 2·Sunday Morning Coming Down·International Superstar·Five Feet High and Rising·Greatest Hits, Vol. 3·The Unissued Johnny Cash·Johnny & June·Tall Man·Encore·Biggest Hits·Wanted Man·16 Biggest Hits·Love, God and Murder·The Essential Johnny Cash·Unearthed·The Legend·The Legend of Johnny Cash·Personal File·The Legend of Johnny Cash Vol. II
Songs
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Family
June Carter Cash ·John Carter Cash ·Rosanne Cash ·Carlene Carter ·Vivian Liberto ·Tommy Cash ·Carter Family
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The Firthcliffe Firehouse is located along Willow Avenue in the Town of Cornwall in Orange County, New York. It was built to protect the homes being built by the Firth Carpet Company for workers at its nearby plant in the early 20th century.
In 1996 it was added to the National Register of Historic Places. It is currently being used as a hair salon.
Contents
1Building
2History
3See also
4References
Building
The firehouse is located on a small lot on the north side of the street. The ground slopes down gently from the road. The neighborhood is residential except for the firehouse, with houses across the street and on either side.
It is a one-story three-bay square brick building with hipped roof shingled in slate. A stone watercourse separates the first story from the basement, and all windows and doors have stone lintels and sills. A square bell tower with hipped roof supported by four brick pillars, rises from the east side of the building near the main entrance.
On the front facade, the two eastern bays are the former entrance for the fire wagon, now occupied by a window and door. A projecting wooden gable, with a slight bell flare at the eaves and exposed rafters, shelters the entrance. The basement entrance, on the exposed south side due to the slope of the land, is also covered by a similar wooden gable.
Several frame partitions have been put up inside to create interior rooms in what was originally undivided space. The fireman’s pole is still in place. A simple wooden stair leads to the basment and the bell tower.
History
Charles Firthcliffe built his textile mill on Moodna Creek near the end of the 19th century. He built a house near the mill, and also built for his workers, who began settling in what became the hamlet of Firthcliffe by 1900.
The firehouse was probably built around that time to protect those properties. Its small size suggests it could only house one engine and was therefore meant to protect only a small area. It style was typical for public buildings of that time.
Most of the houses built for Firthcliffe and his employees remain, but have been extensively altered. The firehouse is the only intact building from that era in the hamlet.
See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in Orange County, New York
References
Hudson Valley portal
^ abcdefgArdito, Anthony (October 1995). “National Register of Historic Places nomination, Firthcliffe Firehouse”. New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. http://www.oprhp.state.ny.us/hpimaging/hp_view.asp?GroupView=10962. Retrieved August 23, 2009.
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