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A New Beginning

A year ago when Terrorizer spoke to Joey Jordison, the drummer was a man of (sic) the edge. Now the Slipknot founder is in a different headspace and facing the future with heady determination.

Words: Tobyn Dorcian Pics: Kane Hibberd Terrorizer #224, July 2012 (google docs link)

**self harm warning for questions 4 and 5 and image 4**

When Joey Jordison was in Australia in March 2011, he was a wreck. Ten months afterPaul (sic) Gray, Joey’s best friend and fellow Slipknot originator/bassist had died from a drugs (sic) overdose, and the drummer was psychologically frail. To distract from his grief, Jordison had over-committed to Soundwave festival as both guitarist in the Murderdolls and drummer for Rob Zombie – exhaustion led to him cancel (sic) a Sydney show.

A year on, Jordison is the antithesis of that vision. Once again in Australia, this time with Slipknot for their 7pm slot at Soundwave festival, he is chipper and energetic. Near unrecognisable with a bush ranger-like beard and moustache, the 37-year-old is in such a great mood he insists on doing two interviews: one at 6.30pm prior to Slipknot’s Melbourne arena sideshow, and another at 11.40pm at its conclusion.

How has the past 12 months been for you? “Very positive. I’m happier than I’ve been for a long time.”

The death of best friend and Slipknot bassist Paul Gray had put you in a bad place. What’s helped you to move forward? “I went right into the studio. I’ve been working non-stop, pouring all my energy into writing music, and nothing but good results have come from it. I am happy being (sic) the studio and am working on music because that’s my life-blood. We all have deaths in our family but you have to move on. [Pauses] It’s really hard for me to talk about Paul’s death…”

Do you ever feel Paul’s presence? “Oh yeah. I’ve been writing stuff since his death and he’s with me at all times. I will be sitting writing a riff, and I know the exact part where he is coming in. I almost talk to him, in a weird way.”

** As a tribute to Paul, Corey [Taylor, vocalist] got a tattoo of him on his leg. “I don’t have any tattoos but I have this. [Rolls up his left shirtsleeve to reveal two several inch-long scars on his shoulder]. After he died, I cut two lines [Paul Gray was Slipknot number 2] into my arm. He remains on my snare hand.”

** What do the lines represent? “That he’s with me at all times. I will never have tattoos, ever. I don’t put ink in my body. I am the only one in the band that doesn’t have them. I don’t want anyone putting my memory into my body but me. This will never go away. When I did it it cut pretty deep. Now, he is playing with me at all times.”

You have spoken about your life in Iowa, that you live in isolation. In your house there are no clocks, the windows are blacked out and you rarely answer the phone. To what extent has that changed? “I now have three cats: Mokey, Melvin and Murray [previously, Joey had Mokey], but nothing has changed. That part of me will always remain the same. It [that feeling] is even happening right now. When I walk out of this room [backstage at Melbourne’s Rod Laver Arena], I can’t stand it until I get behind my drums; that’s my safe zone. That’s where I feel at home, besides in my house with a guitar. I didn’t pick isolation – this is not a story piece, that’s fucking bullshit – It’s the way I am. I like things that I like and I stick to them. I’ve been like this since I was a kid.”

What do you think that’s about? “I don’t necessarily know. I guess I was so interested in music when I was a kid and was so engulfed by it that it was all I could think about. I was like, ‘This is what I want to do and this is my calling’. I knew what I wanted to do at a very, very young age, so I am very lucky in that respect. On tour, I have done the sightseeing and it is beautiful and I love that but if I want to see something I’ll got (sic) and see it. If I want to stay in my [hotel] room and listen to music… that is what I usually do. It just depends on my mood, which is a little different every day.”

You feel comfortable at home and behind the kit, but not so much in the places in between. “I can’t relate to too many people. When I was very young my grandma told me that if you have just one really close friend you should consider yourself lucky, and I still live to that rule, because honestly, you cannot hardly trust anyone. That’s why I termed the song ‘People = Shit’. I had that term on a t-shirt when we were a club band, way before we got signed.”

It seems like you don’t fit in. “I don’t. I have never been that person who goes out to try to make friends intentionally. I like to have a drink here [at the venue] and hang out with good people but I don’t go out anymore. I like hanging out with my family and my cats and my guitar. I am probably one of the only people who has a guitar in their bathroom. It’s there just in case when I have to go shit [Laughs], I have a cool idea. I always wake up with a riff, so when I have to go and do the morning thing, I play guitar while I’m doing it.”

Something might come of it… “A lot has come of it. [Laughs] I like taking baths. I’m not a shower guy too much. I love soaking in the bath and I get really good ideas there too. I like coming out and grabbing my guitar. Even if I write some of the craziest, fastest shit of the Slipknot catalogue, I am always at peace. I have to be at peace. I can never write anything unless I am at peace. That’s what’s good about having this sort of [musical] gift.

“I watch a lot of shows on the Discovery Channel about how things are made: it intrigues my brain. Some of the science stuff makes me feel a little stupid, but then I’m like, wait, what they (sic) hell are you talking about? They can’t do what I’m doing.”

Surely, you are in the wrong business [music] if you are looking for trust? “I can’t bitch about anything because I am very lucky, but luck has nothing to do with where I am right now. That luck shit can fuck right off. I work my fucking ass off to be like this. I did this to be true to myself and to my friends. Then you have all these assholes come in and they are like, ‘We can’t play a goddamn note but we learnt how to market a bunch of shit and collect off you’. I cannot stand one of them. Slipknot is a product of the shit we hate, and when we go out onstage it is vengeance.

“On the other hand, the maggots who come to our shows, I have something in common with each one of them: that’s how much they understand my music. Our music becomes their music. They give it right back to us and it gives us energy. I can see in kids’ eyes what we have done, what a movement we’ve created. Not many bands have done what we have.”

Last year Clown [Shawn Crahan, percussionist] told Terrorizer he wasn’t sure if he wanted to do Slipknot anymore. “I don’t believe that at all. Plus, there isn’t any shit that needs to be ‘repaired’, like there’s a rift between band members. We all do other stuff. There are no fights. We are getting along so well right now. The feeling is like it was in 1999, when we first came out. Corey and I understand each other more than we ever have. The thing is that we have never not gotten along; it’s the fucking press that turned us against each other. In fact, I brought Corey into Slipknot. Back then, no one even wanted him in the band.”

Why not? “At that time we were like an eccentric death metal circus act. It was great, but something was missing. I said to Clown that we needed to get Corey to sing for us. Shawn [Clown] is hardcore, he is the dad of our band and we respect his opinion. He was like, ‘Fuck no’, but said he liked Corey’s vocals. So myself, Mick [Thompson (sic), guitar] and Shawn went to the porn store where Corey used to work. When we arrived Corey was really nervous, like we were going to beat him up or something. Shawn went up to Corey and asked him if he wanted to try out and he freaked out.

“The next day he parked his car around the back of the studio – because we didn’t want anyone to know – and it was just me and Shawn. The first song he demoed was ‘Me Inside’. I sat next to Shawn and said, ‘Watch this shit, I know what’s going to happen’. Corey got to the chorus and Shawn looked at me and was like, ‘You were right’. Corey’s relationship with me has come full circle. We love each other very much.”

Right now, what binds Slipknot together? “We started to think, what if it [Slipknot] did go away, and realised how much the band meant to us. The songs mean more to me now than they ever have… remembering the crap we went through, all the stupid bickering and crap that never needed to happen. All of that has been weeded out and now it’s like we’ve been rebuilt, stronger than ever. Slipknot is a machine right.

“Our band is nine fucking extraordinary personalities, extreme, intense personalities, who live all over the place and yet we are still together, so fuck you. I would die for these guys. If I died onstage, I wouldn’t care. This is going to sound stupid, but it would be from my heart. It’s a fucking war onstage, it isn’t safe.”

Your temporary bass player [Donnie Steele] is out of view. Why? “The other guy [Donnie] is not allowed onstage, no fucking way. He is behind the stage and does a great job. We are nine people and we unfortunately lost one. But it doesn’t matter; we are still nine. We can never replace Paul, but that’s why I bought (sic) Donnie into the band. He was the first guitar who played before I came into the picture, when we were The Pale Ones. He is a really cool guy and very mellow.

“We haven’t decided on another bassist yet. We don’t want any marquee names or anything like that. It doesn’t make sense to bring anyone in from another band that’s huge. We want to keep it in the family, and he’s part of our family and it’s been great ever since.”

Will the next Slipknot album still be “the darkest one ever?” “It’s going to be dark no matter what. There ain’t no changing that fucking statement.”

How much darker than ‘Iowa’ can you go? “That’s up to us. So far, I’ve written and recorded 40 songs.”

Is there a song about Paul? “Yes, my working title is ‘Gray’.”

Have you been working with the other guys or by yourself? “To tell you the truth, it’s just been me. Everyone is writing stuff, but people want to do other projects [Corey Taylor and Jim Root and (sic) working on a new Stone Sour album. Clown has released a photography book], and so I’m writing alone until we can all come together. Then we can start playing and go from there. That’s how we wrote, ‘Prelude’, ‘The Blister Exists’, it’s how we start a lot of songs.”

With the next album, what is the journey you wish to take the listener on? “This will be our deepest, most celebrated record. The journey is that we are trying to live our lives, just like everyone else is trying to live theirs’. We all have weird shit in our lives and a lot of our songs reflect that. On the next record we will be exorcising, getting out a lot of the crap out that I think personally, we have held in too much, against each other.”

What sort of emotions will come out? “Both positive and negative. Jealousy? That doesn’t exist in this band. That is the worst emotion; it kills people. You know who fucking does that? It’s the press, and it just pisses us off. People [journalists] keep putting words in our mouth. If they want to keep doing it, keep doing it, because it’s pissing us off right now. Everyone on the outside – journalists, business manager, accountant – this album will be the worst in terms of ‘fuck you’. ‘Iowa’ was kind of playful. This one, as far as emotions go, is going to connect with everyone way more than any of our others.”

Where do you see Slipknot evolving from here? “Slipknot can do two things: either leave the legacy where it is now or cut everything that’s been before and take it even further. That’s where my mindset is at. I can only see it getting even bigger.”

In the early 2000s, Clown had stage props of cow heads on spikes. What is the most shocking thing Slipknot has done? “We never look to shock anyone. If it’s shocking to some people, then I guess you can call it shock but that was never the intent. That’s just Shawn being Shawn. We used to go down to the meat packing plant [in Des Moines] and were really intrigued by the smell of dead animals. We’d just sit there and gawk at them. We just liked the fucking smell of it. No matter how pungent or grotesque.

“Bringing that type of stuff out was part of the ‘Iowa’ cycle and it made sense then. I don’t think it makes sense now. The thing about that is you never know what we are going to do tonight. I don’t know what the rest of them are doing (sic) to do; they don’t have to know what I am going to do. We don’t have structure. Ours is no choreographed shit.”

You’ve been doing Slipknot for almost 20 years. To what extent have you mellowed? “Not at all. I’m still punk rock. I will travel in a van; I don’t care. It doesn’t matter to me: trains, buses, planes, whatever, I’ll get there. As long as I have my leather jacket and maybe a toothbrush, throw me in a fucking corner and I’ll sleep there. I don’t give a fuck.”

Slipknot must have made a lot of money. Looking at you, you’d never know it, as you are in no way ostentatious. “To tell you the truth, I have no fucking clue about it. [Laughs] It’s there, but money and all that shit doesn’t register with me. I don’t calculate it. Maybe it’s stupid but I don’t give a fuck about money, which is maybe why I’ve been ripped off in the past, but I just don’t care. Money is bullshit to me. I hate it. It’s an evil fucking thing. It controls the world and that’s why I don’t like it. With our band, it was never about that and it still isn’t. The last thing we think about is that. But if there is money to be made, of course we want to make it and not get ripped off.

“When we were starting we thought maybe we’d sell 30,000 records. Even getting signed was weird. When someone says, ‘You need to get business smart’, I’m like, fuck all that. I am still that little punk rock kid. That little kid that was in his basement playing drums, blast-beating and learning all this shit from the bands I grew up listening to.”

What does your number [1] mean to you? “Now it doesn’t really mean much. When we started it was an idea and I am number one for a reason. I was that number because I am the base of the band, the rhythm section, its glue. I don’t really look it at (sic) much anyone (sic), I try to think of us by our names, but I’m glad to still have that number.”

In 2000 you let my 15-year-old socially awkward nephew watch Slipknot from the side of the stage [in Melbourne, Australia]. 12 years later as his mother was dying of cancer, he recalled how much that meant to him. And how you looked after him. “That means a lot to me. [Pauses] I’m glad he had that outlet [Slipknot] because that’s what I needed when I was young. I needed it because I was an outcast. I don’t have many friends and I don’t want them: that is my sickness. The ones that I have are the guys in my band; they are my brothers. They would do anything for me.

“When I was young… that’s why I was so attracted to music. Everyone else was into sport and extra curricular activities and so I was the misfit. Music just felt safe. It spoke to me so loudly that it made everything seem clear – nothing else at that time did. In a weird way, it almost chose me. The demon grabbed me by the throat and put me on a mantle and said, ‘This is what you are going to do’. I have been stuck there ever since. [Laughs] It’s not a bad place to be. It makes me comfortable and keeps me warm.”

‘Antennas To Hell’ is out on July 16 on Roadrunner www.Slipknot1.com

Joey on:

Watain “They are the real deal, man. I think [frontman] Erik Danielsson is in the top 3 black metal singers of all time. That guy’s voice is pure. Watching them, people want to do the whole pit thing, but I am the opposite, I find it relaxing. It’s weird. The blood they put on, that’s real. They are coming to Iowa, so I will probably be in the front row, being a fan boy.”

Burzum “I loved ‘From The Depths Of Darkness’ [2011]. A lot of people focus on the murder [of Euronymous], but I look beyond that, to his music. I don’t condone murder, but I’m like, ‘Get over that and listen to this shit’. The Count is about as dark as you get and I totally love everything he has done. I haven’t met him, but he’s definitely one of the people I’d love to meet.”

Marilyn Manson “I met him a long time ago and we became friends after that. What I like about him more than anything is that you never know what’s coming. He is unpredictable and that is punk rock. That to me is true fucking art. I think that’s why him and me really connected. He gets me and I get him too. I haven’t talked to him for a while, but he’s always been nice to me.”

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Australia National Cricket Team

Head coach: Justin Langer Assistant coach: Andrew McDonald Batting coach: Graeme Hick Fielding coach: Mike Young Performance coach: Ben Oliver Physiotherapist: Richard Saw

The Australian men's national cricket crew speaks to Australia in men's universal cricket. As perhaps the most established group in Test cricket history, playing in the first since forever Test coordinate in 1877,[9] the group likewise plays One-Day International (ODI) and Twenty20 International (T20I) cricket, taking part in both the first ODI, against England in the 1970–71 season[10] and the first T20I, against New Zealand in the 2004–05 season,[11] dominating the two matches. The group attracts its players from groups playing the Australian household rivalries – the Sheffield Shield, the Australian residential constrained overs cricket competition and the Big Bash League.

The national group has played 827 Test matches, winning 390, losing 224, drawing 211 and tying 2.[12] As of November 2019, Australia is positioned fifth in the ICC Test Championship on 99 rating points.[13] Australia is the best group in Test cricket history, as far as generally speaking successes, win-misfortune proportion and wins rate.

The Australian cricket crew has played 942 ODI matches, winning 573, losing 326, tying 9 and with 34 closure in a no-result.[14] As of July 2019, Australia is positioned third in the ICC ODI Championship on 113 rating points,[15] however have been positioned first for 141 of 185 months since its presentation in 2002. Australia is the best ODI group ever, winning more than 60 percent of their matches. Australia have made a record seven World Cup last debuts (1975, 1987, 1996, 1999, 2003, 2007 and 2015) and have won the World Cup a record multiple times: 1987, 1999, 2003, 2007 and 2015.

Australia is the primary group to show up in four back to back World Cup finals (1996, 1999, 2003 and 2007), outperforming the old record of three continuous World Cup appearances by the West Indies (1975, 1979 and 1983) and the principal group to win 3 sequential World Cups (1999, 2003 and 2007). The group was undefeated in 34 back to back World Cup matches until 19 March at the 2011 Cricket World Cup where Pakistan beat them by 4 wickets.[16] It is additionally the subsequent group to win a World Cup (2015) on home soil, after India (2011). Australia have likewise won the ICC Champions Trophy twice (2006 and 2009) making them the first and the main group to get consecutive victors in the Champions Trophy competitions.

The national group has played 122 Twenty20 International matches, winning 65, losing 52, tying 2 and with 3 completion in a no-result.[17] As of August 2019, Australia is positioned fifth in the ICC T20I Championship on 261 rating points.[18] Additionally, the group made the last of the 2010 ICC World Twenty20, in which they lost to England.

On 12 January 2019, Australia won the first ODI against India at the Sydney Cricket Ground by 34 runs, to record their 1,000th success in worldwide cricket.[19]

Early History - Australia National Cricket Team

The Australian cricket crew partook in the main Test coordinate at the MCG in 1877, vanquishing an English group by 45 runs, with Charles Bannerman making the primary Test century, a score of 165 resigned hurt. Test cricket, which just happened among Australia and England at that point, was constrained by the long separation between the two nations, which would take a while via ocean. In spite of Australia's a lot littler populace, the group was exceptionally serious in early games, delivering stars, for example, Jack Blackham, Billy Murdoch, Fred "The Demon" Spofforth, George Bonnor, Percy McDonnell, George Giffen and Charles "The Terror" Turner. Most cricketers at the time were either from New South Wales or Victoria, with the remarkable special case of George Giffen, the star South Australian all-rounder.

The Bradman period

The 1930 voyage through England proclaimed another period of progress for the Australian group. The group, drove by Bill Woodfull – the "Incomparable Un-bowlable" – highlighted legends of the game including Bill Ponsford, Stan McCabe, Clarrie Grimmett and the youthful pair of Archie Jackson and Don Bradman. Bradman was the exceptional batsman of the arrangement, scoring a record 974 runs, including one century, two twofold hundreds of years and one triple century, an enormous score of 334 at Leeds which remembering 309 runs for a day. Jackson kicked the bucket of tuberculosis at the age of 23 three years after the fact, in the wake of playing eight Tests. The group was generally viewed as relentless, winning nine of its next ten Tests.

Australia National Cricket Team - Training staff

Head coach: Justin Langer Assistant coach: Andrew McDonald Batting coach: Graeme Hick Fielding coach: Mike Young Performance coach: Ben Oliver Physiotherapist: Richard Saw

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Whenever she is faced with the stock interview question about her “leading men” and which was her favourite, star Julie Andrews inevitably demurs with characteristic diplomacy. All her male leads are glossed as “divine” and “dishy” and each one praise for having taught her “something different” (Cottrell, 166). Even notorious terrors like Rex Harrison are tactfully recalled as “charismatic” and “fascinating” and “for that one forgave him everything” (Andrews, 224).

If pressed, however, Julie will occasionally allow herself to discriminate, and one male co-star she seems happy to single out for special kudos is Max von Sydow, the acclaimed Swedish actor who played opposite her in Hawaii (1966) and, again twenty years later, in Duet for One (1986).

“He was the unqualified front runner – the most generous man I have ever met. And he had such a lovely light sense of humour. I consider it a privilege to have worked with him” (Wilson, 23).

At the time of their initial collaboration on Hawaii, von Sydow – who was already a film actor of note in European art cinema – was only beginning to come to the attention of mainstream American audiences courtesy of his first Hollywood foray playing Jesus Christ, no less, in the Biblical epic, The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965). Julie had also not long made her own high-profile film debut in Mary Poppins – for which she would in fact receive the Oscar during the early stages of Hawaii‘s production. That both she and von Sydow came to the film on the back of such splashy Hollywood bows inspired the actress to joke, “We should be a great team…I can fly and he can walk on water” (Archerd, 22).

Wry quips like this quickly endeared Julie to von Sydow, who shared a similar sense of puckish humour. Visitors to the set of Hawaii commented on how well the pair got on and how they both had a mutual “flair for comedy which they delight[ed] in springing on unsuspecting conversationalists” (Archerd, 22). Years later, von Sydow would describe Julie admiringly as “one of the most irreverent and witty women I’ve ever known” (Warga, 18).

Julie was equally fulsome in her praise of von Sydow. “He’s one of the nicest men who ever walked,” she enthused, “No pretense–a love!” (Hopper, III-5). “I have worked with wonderful leading men but Max has to be the superlative of superlatives,” she gushed in a later interview, “he is generous, he’s compassionate. These qualities really lay you out flat” (Battele, 36). She got on so well with her new leading man that she feared “Max has spoiled me for working with anybody else” (Oppenheimer, 7).

The star pair’s off-screen rapport certainly helped infuse their on-screen performances with genuine chemistry and heartfelt warmth. As profiled in an earlier post, reviews of Hawaii were decidedly mixed but most critics lauded the two leads. “Max Von Sydow is superb…and the versatile Julie Andrews proves the perfect counterpart,” wrote the Courier-Post (”Michener Epic”, 41 ). Von Sydow’s “performance is a potent one,” averred the reviewer for The Philadelphia Inquirer, and “Julie Andrews…gives the very needed warmth to ‘Hawaii’” (Murdock, 37). The St Louis Post Dispatch similarly argued: “Max von Sydow…gives a superb performance…So too does Julie Andrews come through with a sterling job of acting as his patient bride” (G4). Even Vincent Canby of The New York Times who thought the film plodding and “a bit of a bore”, wrote that “Mr. Von Sydow is a fascinating actor…and Julie Andrews is both strong-jawed and appealing as his long-suffering wife. Together they contribute the film’s few moments of genuine emotion”(51).

Given their obvious on- and off-screen simpatico, it’s a shame that Julie and von Sydow waited two full decades before appearing together in another film…and an even greater shame that their subsequent collaboration, Duet for One (1986), largely sank without a trace.* Mind, the two would have worked together much sooner had von Sydow had his way. They apparently remained in quite close contact for some time after the end of filming on Hawaii. Von Sydow and his family stayed with Julie in her Los Angeles home when they came for the West Coast premiere of the film (Muir, 5-B), and a few months later von Sydow escorted Julie’s mother, Barbara to the London premiere in Julie’s absence (Grahame, 27).

Press reports from late 1966 and early 1967 reveal that von Sydow – who was allegedly keen to ‘lighten’ his own screen image, as well as branch into movie producing (Archerd, 22) – had purchased the film rights to “Champaign Suite”, by Swedish comedy writer, Nils Hergaard and he had “already begun negotiations with Julie Andrews, his co-star from ‘Hawaii’, about the feminine lead in the film” (“Movie Call Sheet”, 43). Other reports state he was also in discussions with George Roy Hill to direct and Fred MacMurray to co-star (Bradford, 18). Unfortunately, we haven’t been able to find much further information on this unrealised project but it is just the kind of tidbit of intriguing “what if” trivia that the Parallel Julieverse adores…so watch this space!

Notes: * Duet for One will surely be the subject of a future post but, in this context, it’s interesting to note that the film – while criminally mismanaged by studio, Cannon Films, then on the verge of insolvency – met a similar critical reception to that of Hawaii twenty years earlier. Reviewers were generally lukewarm on the property itself but had nothing but praise for the central performances. Kevin Thomas of The Los Angeles Times, for example, described Duet for One as

“a four-hankie drama of the past…[that] is uneven at best…[and] only works thanks to Andrews’ vibrant presence and sheer professionalism….‘Duet for One’ comes alive when Andrews and Von Sydow spar as equals in character and intelligence. Defeatingly, their confrontations are infrequent and so brief they seem truncated…You’re left wishing Julie Andrews got to run the gamut in more rewarding circumstances” (V-8).

Sources:

Andrews, Julie. Home: A Memoir of My Early Years. New York: Hyperion, 2008.

Archerd, Army. “Sydow Eyes Comedy But Will Have to Wait.” The Journal News. 20 September 1965: 22.

Battelle, Phyllis. “A Good Role Never Lets Julie Alone.” Philadelphia Daily News. 17 August 1965: 36.

______________. “The Julie Andrews Nobody Knows: ‘Socko, Boffo, Whammo’ for Leading Men.” Philadelphia Daily News. 30 September 1965: 36.

Bradford, Jack. “Notes from Hollywood.” The Pasadena Independent. 6 January 1967: 18.

Canby, Vincent. “Screen: ‘Hawaii,’ Big, Long Film, Has Its Premiere.” The New York Times. 11 October 1966: 54.

Cottrell, John. Julie Andrews: The Story of a Star. London: Arthur Barker, 1968.

Graham, Sheilah. “Hollywood ‘N Everywhere.” Sunday Star-Bulletin and Advertiser. 8 January 1967: 27.

Hopper, Hedda. “Who Will Be ‘Last Duchess’?” The Los Angeles Times. 29 May 1965: III-5.

“Michener Epic, ‘Hawaii’ Reaches a Big Finish.” The Courier-Post. 26 October 1966: 41.

Muir, Florabel. “Hollywood and Vine.” The Times. 9 August 1966: 5-B.

____________. “Best of Hollywood.” The Philadelphia Inquirer. 28 December 1966:

Murdock, Henry T. “3-Hour-Plus ‘Hawaii’ Portrays a Small Part of Michener’s Novel.” The Philadelphia Inquirer. 26 October 1966: 37.

Oppenheimer, Peer J. “Is He the World’s Best Actor?” Family Weekly, The Newspaper Magazine. 2 October 1966: 6-7.

Standish, Myles. “The New Films.” St Louis Post-Dispatch. 30 October 1966: G4.

Terry, Clifford. “Acting and Scenery Help ‘Hawaii’ Thru Three Long Hours.” The Chicago Tribune. 20 October 1966: 2-1.

Thomas, Kevin. “‘Duet for One’: A Four-hankie Drama Of The Past.” The Los Angeles Times. 25 December 1986: V-8.

Tobin, Riv. “‘Hawaii’ Film Personalities on the Go.” The Sunday Star-Bulletin and Advertiser. 19 September 1965: D6.

“Movie Call Sheet: Von Sydow Buys Comedy.” The Los Angeles Times. 17 December 1966: 43

Warga, Wayne. “‘Emigrants’ a Labor of Love for Sydow.” The Los Angeles Times. 29 October 1972: Calendar 18

Wilson, Jane. “Thoroughly Wholesome Julie.” The Sunday Times Magazine. 8 October 1967: 12-23.

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Cricket World Cup final: 'Fire-breathing England can go all the way'

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Cricket World Cup final: 'Fire-breathing England can go all the way'

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Highlights: England reach World Cup final

ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup final: New Zealand v England Venue:Lord’sDate:14 JulyStart:10:30 BST Coverage:Ball-by-ball Test Match Special commentary on BBC Radio 5 Live, Radio 4 LW, online, tablets, mobiles and BBC Sport app. Live text commentary on the BBC Sport website. Live TV coverage on Channel 4 & Sky Sports

English sporting semi-finals have not been happy experiences in the past 12 months. Too much heartbreak, too many what-ifs, too many next times.

The only what-ifs at Edgbaston were what England might have scored had they batted their full 50 overs. The heartbreak was all Australian. The next time is a World Cup final at Lord’s on Sunday.

On Monday Australia’s players had taken their shoes and socks off and walked the outfield here. The idea was to feel the positive energy coming out of the earth. On Thursday England took their pants down for them too.

Some of it came from England’s outstanding opening bowlers, who produced a combined spell of 3-27 off their first 11 overs.

Even more came from Jason Roy, smashing 85 off 65 balls to turn a run-chase into a run-romp, crashing Steve Smith for three consecutive sixes, the last somewhere into Solihull.

Brilliant England demolish Australia to reach final

World Cup final to be on free-to-air TV

Reaching final beyond belief – England captain Morgan

England are the benchmark – Finch

It came fizzing back at Australia from the stands, because there are few places as fun to be as an England supporter than Edgbaston when Australia are in town.

It had been 9,989 days since England last beat Australia in the World Cup, but it has also been 26 years since the dominant cricketing nation of that quarter-century have won at this ground.

England come here and to Trent Bridge like a team transformed from the one that has routinely been rolled over at Lord’s across the same period, to the one that was comprehensively beaten by Aaron Finch’s men in north-west London just a fortnight ago.

On Thursday morning Australia won the toss. That was supposed to be half the battle in this tournament of faltering chases and slow pitches. David Warner then clattered the opening delivery from Chris Woakes through extra cover for four.

As auguries go it was a giant raspberry. Almost nothing Australia did from that moment on went right. Almost everything England touched turned to gold.

Australia’s openers had produced 43% of their side’s runs in the tournament to this point. The partnership of Finch and Warner has averaged 127 a match. Finch had four centuries in his previous nine innings against England.

This was different. This was Edgbaston, this was England – the souped-up, fire-breathing, chest-beating England.

Jofra Archer bowled full and fast to trap Finch lbw for a golden duck. Woakes produced pace and bounce to get Warner snagged in the slips.

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Australia 14-3 as England make dream start

A game that was to end with choruses of “cricket’s coming home” had its course set. Even then few in the jubilant home support could have envisaged just how one-dimensional the plot would be.

No fourth-act terrors, no jeopardy, no crisis for the hero to fight his way through. It was a summer blockbuster in which the evil nemesis turned out to be a pantomime dame. England fans first booed and then laughed.

World Cup semi-finals are not supposed to be like this. For starters, Australia usually win them. Since England last reached the last four of the World Cup Australia have actually won the thing four times.

They are also not meant to resemble Test cricket in their opening exchanges, but that is how Edgbaston felt under the high clouds: three slips in, a batsman left bleeding and in need of stitches after having his helmet knocked off by a fast bowler, a team limping to 27 off the first 10 overs.

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‘I’ve never seen that before!’ – Archer bouncer knocks Carey’s helmet off

The third Australia wicket went down with just 14 runs on the board, which, given Australia’s record in this competition, was actually being used as a promising sign by some. The only time they had endured a worst start to a semi-final – slipping to 8-3 in Mohali in 1996 – they still went on to win.

But this is not the Australia of then and this is not the same old England.

The story of this team’s rise to the world number one ranking has predominantly been one of blistering batting. When runs have come fast the team have bullied their opponents into submission.

On Thursday the bowling was fast and it was unrelenting.

Peter Handscomb had last batted against Gloucestershire second XI 12 days ago. It was nowhere near the sort of preparation he required to face Archer breezing in to deliver 90mph howitzers.

His stumps had bolted long before he closed the gate between his bat and front pad against Woakes.

It is not just about raw pace with Archer. He has now bowled 338 dot balls in the tournament, more than any other bowler. Together with Woakes he produced 45 scoreless deliveries from the first 60 bowled.

There is artistry too: the knuckle-ball that foxed Glenn Maxwell into spooning a catch to Eoin Morgan at cover, a ruse so effective that the number seven was still blaming the pitch when he was halfway to the pavilion.

Archer finished with 2-32 from 10 overs, a blend of parsimony and raw terror that was complemented first by Woakes’ 3-20 off eight and then Adil Rashid’s three wickets as Australia threatened a fightback that never came.

A target of 224 might have been tricky to overhaul. No-one has been able to chase in this World Cup. Mitchell Starc had taken 22 of his 26 wickets bowling second.

Instead the total went up in smoke and the party kicked upwards and on. Starc ended up being serenaded by the same song that had been used to torment another fast-bowling Mitchell Johnson. If that hadn’t ended well for England, Roy and Jonny Bairstow turned the volume up and cut loose.

Seldom was this slogging. It was a calculated assault that married risk to reward with supreme balance.

When Nathan Lyon came on in the 11th over, the ball having turned appreciably for Rashid, Roy lofted his first ball over long-on for six. A single apiece, then a reverse-sweep for four.

It was thrilling and sensible at the same time, and that was before Finch had gambled on spin at the other end from Smith.

A single, a wide, a single, a deep breath. Six down the ground, six down the ground, six almost out of the ground.

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Roy smashes Smith for three sixes in a row

Roy may have been deprived his century by a howler of an umpiring decision but England could not be stopped.

When Morgan clattered the winning runs just after 17:00 BST his side were 114 runs ahead on Duckworth-Lewis. They had 107 balls to spare. That’s almost an entire Twenty20 innings.

As Morgan and Joe Root embraced in the middle, the galleries at Edgbaston serenaded them with half-cut abandon. A semi-final at last had been a staging post rather than the finish line.

Sixteen days after England teetered on the brink of elimination, maybe – just maybe – there is more to come yet.

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Trump exposes media coverup of 78 terror attacks

It’s no big secret that the liberal media are completely allergic to the phrase “radical Islamic terrorism.”

However, the Trump administration believes the media are completely allergic to reporting on terrorism at all. On Monday, the White House released a list of 78 terror attacks since 2014 that they feel “did not receive adequate attention from Western media sources”:

CNN’s Jim Acosta said his producer was given the list of the 78 attacks outside of the White House. Though he did not read the list in full on air, Acosta said it included attacks like Paris, Brussels, Nice, Istanbul and San Bernardino.

The terror attacks in Paris and San Bernardino were widely reported; but again, the media avoided tying the atrocities to radical Islam at all costs.

At MacDill Air Force Base Monday, Trump argued that, “It’s gotten to a point where [terrorism is] not even reported, and in many cases the very, very dishonest press doesn’t even want to report it.”

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See the full unedited list of the 78 terror attacks behind the cut.

TIMELINE: September, 2014 – December, 2016 NUMBER OF ATTACKS: 78

MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA September, 2014 TARGET: Two police officers wounded in knife attack ATTACKER: Abdul Numan Haider

TIZI OUZOU, ALGERIA September, 2014 TARGET: One French citizen beheaded ATTACKER: Jund al-Khilafah in Algeria

QUEBEC, CANADA October, 2014 TARGET: One soldier killed and one wounded in vehicle attack ATTACKER: Martin Couture-Rouleau

OTTAWA, CANADA October, 2014 TARGET: One soldier killed at war memorial; two wounded in shootings at Parliament building ATTACKER: Michael Zehaf-Bibeau

NEW YORK CITY, NY, USA October, 2014 TARGET: Two police officers wounded in knife attack ATTACKER: US person

RIYADH, SAUDI ARABIA November, 2014 TARGET: One Danish citizen wounded in shooting ATTACKERS: Three Saudi Arabia-based ISIL members

ABU DHABI, UAE DATE: December 2014 TARGET: One American killed in knife attack ATTACKER: Dalal al-Hashimi

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA December, 2014 TARGET: Two Australians killed in hostage taking and shooting ATTACKER: Man Haron Monis

TOURS, FRANCE December, 2014 TARGET: Three police officers wounded in knife attack ATTACKER: Bertrand Nzohabonayo

PARIS, FRANCE January, 2015 TARGET: One police officer and four hostages killed in shooting at a kosher supermarket ATTACKER: Amedy Coulibaly

TRIPOLI, LIBYA January, 2015 TARGET: Ten killed, including one US citizen, and five wounded in bombing and shooting at a hotel frequented by westerners ATTACKERS: As many as five ISIL-Libya members

RIYADH, SAUDI ARABIA January, 2015 TARGET: Two US citizens wounded in shooting ATTACKER: Saudi Arabia-based ISIL supporter

NICE, FRANCE February, 2015 TARGET: Two French soldiers wounded in knife attack outside a Jewish community center ATTACKER: Moussa Coulibaly

COPENHAGEN, DENMARK February, 2015 TARGET: One civilian killed in shooting at a free-speech rally and one security guard killed outside the city’s main synagogue ATTACKER: Omar Abdel Hamid el-Hussein

TUNIS, TUNISIA March, 2015 TARGET: 21 tourists killed, including 16 westerners, and 55 wounded in shooting at the Bardo Museum ATTACKERS: Two ISIL-aligned extremists

KARACHI, PAKISTAN April, 2015 TARGET: One US citizen wounded in knife attack ATTACKERS: Pakistan-based ISIL supporters

PARIS, FRANCE April, 2015 TARGET: Catholic churches targeted; one civilian killed in shooting, possibly during an attempted carjacking ATTACKER: Sid Ahmed Ghlam

ZVORNIK, BOSNIA April, 2015 TARGET: One police officer killed and two wounded in shooting ATTACKER: Nerdin Ibric

GARLAND, TX, USA May, 2015 TARGET: One security guard wounded in shooting at the Prophet Muhammad cartoon event ATTACKERS: Two US persons

BOSTON, MA, USA June, 2015 TARGET: No casualties; one police officer attacked with knife ATTACKER: US person

EL GORA (AL JURAH), EGYPT June, 2015 TARGET: No casualties; camp used by Multinational Force and Observers (MFO) troops attacked in shooting and bombing attack ATTACKERS: Unknown number of ISIL-Sinai members

LUXOR, EGYPT June, 2015 TARGET: One police officer killed by suicide bomb near the Temple of Karnak ATTACKER: Unidentified

SOUSSE, TUNISIA June, 2015 TARGET: 38 killed and 39 wounded in shooting at a beach frequented by westerners ATTACKERS: Seifeddine Rezgui and another unidentified attacker

LYON, FRANCE June, 2015 TARGET: One civilian killed in beheading and explosion at a chemical plant ATTACKER: Yasin Salhi

CAIRO, EGYPT July, 2015 TARGET: One killed and nine wounded in VBIED attack at Italian Consulate ATTACKER: Unidentified ISIL operatives

CAIRO, EGYPT July, 2015 TARGET: One Croatian national kidnapped; beheaded on August 12 at an unknown location ATTACKER: Unidentified ISIL-Sinai operative

PARIS, FRANCE August, 2015 TARGET: Two civilians and one US soldier wounded with firearms and knife on a passenger train ATTACKER: Ayoub el-Khazzani

EL GORA, EGYPT September, 2015 TARGET: Four US and two MFO troops wounded in IED attack ATTACKER: Unidentified

DHAKA, BANGLADESH September, 2015 TARGET: One Italian civilian killed in shooting ATTACKER: Unidentified

COPENHAGEN, DENMARK September, 2015 TARGET: One police officer wounded in knife attack ATTAKER: Palestinian national

EL GORA, EGYPT October, 2015 TARGET: No casualties; airfield used by MFO attacked with rockets ATTAKER: Unidentified ISIL-Sinai operatives

PARRAMATTA, AUSTRALIA October, 2015 TARGET: One police officer killed in shooting ATTAKER: Farhad Jabar

RANGPUR, BANGLADESH October, 2015 TARGET: One Japanese civilian killed in shooting ATTAKER: Unidentified

HASANAH, EGYPT October, 2015 TARGET: 224 killed in downing of a Russian airliner ATTAKER: Unidentified ISIL-Sinai operatives

MERCED, CA, US November, 2015 TARGET: Four wounded in knife attack on a college campus ATTAKER: US person

PARIS, FRANCE November, 2015 TARGET: At least 129 killed and approximately 400 wounded in series of shootings and IED attacks ATTAKERS: Brahim Abdelslam, Saleh Abdeslam, Ismail Mostefai, Bilal Hadfi, Samy Amimour, Chakib Ahrouh, Foued Mohamed Aggad, and Abdelhamid Abaaoud

DINAJPUR, BANGLADESH November, 2015 TARGET: One Italian citizen wounded in shooting ATTAKER: Unidentified

RAJLOVAC, BOSNIA December, 2015 TARGET: Two Bosnian soldiers killed in shooting ATTAKER: Enes Omeragic

SAN BERNADINO, CA, US December, 2015 TARGET: 14 killed and 21 wounded in coordinated firearms attack ATTAKERS: Two US persons

LONDON, ENGLAND, UK December, 2015 TARGET: Three wounded in knife attack at an underground rail station ATTAKER: Muhyadin Mire

DERBENT, RUSSIA December, 2015 TARGET: One killed and 11 wounded in shooting at UN World Heritage site ATTAKER: Unidentified ISIL-Caucasus operative

CAIRO, EGYPT January, 2016 TARGET: Two wounded in drive-by shooting outside a hotel frequented by tourists ATTAKERS: Unidentified ISIL operatives

PARIS, FRANCE January, 2016 TARGET: No casualties; attacker killed after attempted knife attack on Paris police station ATTAKER: Tarek Belgacem

PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA January, 2016 TARGET: One police officer wounded in shooting ATTAKER: US person

HURGHADA, EGYPT January, 2016 TARGET: One German and one Danish national wounded in knife attack at a tourist resort ATTAKER: Unidentified

MARSEILLES, FRANCE January, 2016 TARGET: One Jewish teacher wounded in machete attack ATTAKER: 15 year-old Ethnic Kurd from Turkey

ISTANBUL, TURKEY January, 2016 TARGET: 12 German tourists killed and 15 wounded in suicide bombing ATTAKER: Nabil Fadli

JAKARTA, INDONESIA January, 2016 TARGET: Four civilians killed and more than 20 wounded in coordinated bombing and firearms attacks near a police station and a Starbucks ATTAKERS: Dian Joni Kurnaiadi, Muhammad Ali, Arif Sunakim, and Ahmad Muhazan bin Saron

COLUMBUS, OH, US February, 2016 TARGET: Four civilians wounded in machete attack at a restaurant ATTAKER: US person

HANOVER, GERMANY February, 2016 TARGET: One police officer wounded in knife attack ATTAKER: Safia Schmitter

ISTANBUL, TURKEY March, 2016 TARGET: Four killed and 36 wounded in suicide bombing in the tourist district ATTAKER: Mehmet Ozturk

BRUSSELS, BELGIUM March, 2016 TARGET: At least 31 killed and 270 wounded in coordinated bombings at Zaventem Airport and on a subway train ATTAKERS: Khalid el-Bakraoui, Ibrahim el-Bakraoui, Najim Laachraoui, Mohammed Abrini, and Osama Krayem

ESSEN, GERMANY April, 2016 TARGET: Three wounded in bombing at Sikh temple ATTAKERS: Three identified minors

ORLANDO, FL, US June, 2016 TARGET: 49 killed and 53 wounded in shooting at a nightclub ATTAKER: US person

MAGNANVILLE, FRANCE June, 2016 TARGET: One police officer and one civilian killed in knife attack ATTAKER: Larossi Abballa

KABUL, AFGHANISTAN June, 2016 TARGET: 14 killed in suicide attack on a bus carrying Canadian Embassy guards ATTAKER: ISIL-Khorasan operative

ISTANBUL, TURKEY June, 2016 TARGET: 45 killed and approximately 240 wounded at Ataturk International Airport ATTACKERS: Rakhim Bulgarov, Vadim Osmanov, and an unidentified ISIL operative

DHAKA, BANGLADESH July, 2016 TARGET: 22 killed, including one American and 50 wounded after hours-long siege using machetes and firearms at holy Artisan Bakery ATTACKERS: Nibras Islam, Rohan Imtiaz, Meer Saameh Mubasheer, Khairul Islam Paye, and Shafiqul Islam Uzzal

NICE, FRANCE July, 2016 TARGET: 84 civilians killed and 308 wounded by an individual who drove a truck into a crowd ATTACKER: Mohamed Bouhlel

WURZBURG, GERMANY July, 2016 TARGET: Four civilians wounded in axe attack on a train ATTACKER: Riaz Khan Ahmadzai

ANSBACH, GERMANY July, 2016 TARGET: At least 15 wounded in suicide bombing at a music festival ATTACKER: Mohammad Daleel

NORMANDY, FRANCE July, 2016 TARGET: One priest killed in knife attack ATTACKERS: Adel Kermiche and Abdel Malik Nabil Petitjean

CHALEROI, BELGIUM August, 2016 TARGET: Two police officers wounded in machete attack ATTACKER: Khaled Babouri

QUEENSLAND, AUSTRALIA August, 2016 TARGET: Two killed and one wounded in knife attack at a hostel frequented by Westerners ATTACKER: Smail Ayad

COPENHAGEN, DENMAKR September, 2016 TARGET: Two police officers and a civilian wounded in shooting ATTACKER: Mesa Hodzic

PARIS, FRANCE September, 2016 TARGET: One police officer wounded in raid after VBIED failed to detonate at Notre Dame Cathedral ATTACKERS: Sarah Hervouet, Ines Madani, and Amel Sakaou

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA September, 2016 TARGET: One civilian wounded in knife attack ATTACKER: Ihsas Khan

ST. CLOUD, MN, US September, 2016 TARGET: 10 wounded in knife attack in a mall ATTACKER: Dahir Ahmed Adan

NEW YORK, NY; SEASIDE PARK AND ELIZABETH, NJ, US September, 2016 TARGET: 31 wounded in bombing in New York City; several explosive devices found in New York and New Jersey; one exploded without casualty at race in New Jersey; one police officer wounded in shootout ATTACKER: Ahmad Khan Rahami

BRUSSELS, BELGIUM October, 2016 TARGET: Two police officers wounded in stabbing ATTACKER: Belgian national

KUWAIT CITY, KUWAIT TARGET: No casualties; vehicle carrying three US soldiers hit by a truck ATTACKER: Ibrahim Sulayman

MALMO, SWEDEN October, 2016 TARGET: No casualties; mosque and community center attacked with Molotov cocktail ATTACKER: Syrian national

HAMBURG, GERMANY October, 2016 TARGET: One killed in knife attack ATTACKER: Unknown

MANILA, PHILIPPINES November, 2016 TARGET: No casualties; failed IED attempt near US Embassy ATTACKERS: Philippine nationals aligned with the Maute group

COLUMBUS, OH, US November, 2016 TARGET: 14 wounded by individuals who drove a vehicle into a group of pedestrians and attacked them with a knife ATTACKER: US person

N’DJAMENA, CHAD November, 2016 TARGET: No casualties; attacker arrested after opening fire at entrance of US Embassy ATTACKER: Chadian national

KARAK, JORDAN December, 2016 TARGET: 10 killed and 28 wounded in shooting at a tourist site ATTACKERS: Several gunmen

BERLIN, GERMANY December, 2016 TARGET: 12 killed and 48 wounded by individual who drove truck into a crowded market ATTACKER: Anis Amri

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americanlibertypac · 7 years