"Theodore Roosevelt: Nine-tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time."
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YOUR NEWEST PRIORITY:
SEE THIS MOVIE THE VERY FIRST CHANCE YOU GET.
CHARLES OFFICER: NURSE FIGHTER BOY
* Nurse.Fighter.Boy by Charles Officer *
Country: Canada
Year: 2008
Language: English
Runtime: 93 minutes
Format: Colour/35mm
Rating: PG
Production Company: Eleven Thirteen Inc.
Executive Producer: Justine Whyte
Producer: Ingrid Veninger
Screenplay: Charles Officer, Ingrid Veninger
Production Designer: Diana Abbatangelo
Cinematographer: Steve Cosens
Editor: James Blokland
Sound: Garrett Kerr
Music: John Welsman
Principal Cast: Clark Johnson, Karen LeBlanc, Daniel J. Gordon, Walter Borden
Canadian Distributor: Mongrel Media
TIFF Tags: Romance Family Canada First Time Feature
Award-winning Toronto filmmaker Charles Officer returns to the Festival with his poetic debut feature Nurse. Fighter. Boy. Twelve-year-old Ciel (Daniel J. Gordon) immerses himself in a world of magic in order to protect his mother Jude (Karen LeBlanc), a nurse at the City Hospital who herself is ill with sickle-cell anemia. The nurse meets the fighter Silence (Clark Johnson) when he needs stitches after an underground brawl. A solitary, imposing figure, Silence is shaken by the death of his fatherly trainer, an event that forces him to take on new responsibilities. Determined to find a protector for both himself and his mother, Ciel casts a spell in hopes of uniting the warrior with the nurse, thus leading to a series of magical encounters between Jude and Silence.
Nurse.Fighter.Boy is a rich exploration of the connections between the healer, the warrior and the child of its title. Officer, whose short film Short Hymn, Silent War received a Special Jury Citation at the Festival in 2002, directs with both assurance and daring. He uses a rich colour palette for his characters – red for the mother, yellow for the fighter and green for the boy – and touches upon themes of faith and destiny while remaining unabashedly romantic. The subtle narrative is carried by exquisite performances, with Johnson and LeBlanc using their physical presences to convey as much emotion as the spare dialogue. But the revelation is Gordon, who lends Ciel a depth and wisdom that belies his age and experience.
Officer's film expands the possibilities of urban storytelling in Canadian cinema, reaffirming the importance of the city within the country's cultural landscape. Officer connects the diversity of the metropolis with that of Canada's filmic past, recalling the earlier works of directors as diverse as Atom Egoyan and Gilles Carle. Personal and heartfelt, Nurse.Fighter.Boy is a unique and lyrical movie that confirms Officer's status as one of Canada's visionary young filmmakers.
Jesse Wente
Charles Officer studied communication design at the Ontario College of Art & Design and worked as a graphic designer before turning to acting, writing and directing. He has directed several short films, including When Morning Comes(00) and Short Hymn, Silent War (02). Nurse.Fighter.Boy (08) is his feature directing debut.
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KNOW THAT I LOVE YOU (PEACE TO MOS DEF AND TALIB KWELI)
Sydney J. Harris:
An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run.
Theodore Rubin:
Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.
Samuel Johnson:
Memory is the mother of all wisdom.
Robert Heinlein:
But goodness alone is never enough. A hard cold wisdom is required, too, for goodness to accomplish good. Goodness without wisdom invariably accomplishes evil.
Norman Cousins:
Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.
Martin Fischer:
Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.
J. Michael Straczynski:
The quality of our thoughts is bordered on all sides by our facility with language.
Henry David Thoreau:
A man is wise with the wisdom of his time only, and ignorant with its ignorance.
Henry David Thoreau:
It is characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.
Immanuel Kant:
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
George Santayana:
Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.
Georg C. Lichtenberg:
One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.
George Bernard Shaw:
We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
http://www.wisdomquotes.com/cat_wisdom.html
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DIPSET'S FUCKED UP:
www.allhiphop.com
By Tai Saint Louis
Weeks after it was first announced that Juelz Santana has been released from his obligations to Diplomats Records, the rapper is speaking candidly about the details behind the split.
During an interview with AllHipHop.com, Juelz revisited the situation, revealing that the details were not as Diplomat Records’ CEO Cam’ron had previously made them seem.
“I vowed not to say nothing bad about Cam ‘cause I felt like he did a lot for me,” Juelz Santana told AllHipHop.com. “But as far as him selling me, that s**t just sound stupid. I’m the biggest artist in New York City right now, ain’t came out with an album in three years. He would never sell me. It was bad business, and I had to get out my contract. It’s so crazy to me that he’s still trying to make himself look good.
“It’s obvious what’s going on,” he continued. “You see everybody that’s a part of the movement still together but him.”
Juelz Santana said that he respected Cam’ron’s position as head of The Diplomats, but reiterated that bad business was the reason for his departure from the label, which distributed Juelz’ projects via Def Jam.
“It’s a line between loyalty and stupidity man, bottom line. And it’s gotta be drawn sometimes,” Santana told AllHipHop.com. “So as far as the fans, I hope they understand, that’s the realest quote I could give them.”
The statements come as Juelz Santana prepares to launch his first efforts as the latest rapper-turned-label head, introducing his stable of protégés via the release of Skull Gang Takeover: The New Movement To Move Wit.
The project will be available for free download starting next Friday (Sep 19).
The project will serve as an introduction to Skull Gang’s core members: rappers Richmond Rabb, John Depp, Unkasa and R&B singer/songwriter Starr.
Takeover also heavily features Juelz, who appears on every track on the project.
“I felt like the game needed something new just as much as they needed me right now, so I decided to give them both at the same time,” he explained. “I’m excited right now. Just as much as I’m excited for myself, I’m excited for my artists. I didn’t just put together artists that was around me. My team is really built based on talent. And, you know, I feel like we can only win. The music is strong, we just gotta execute the right way.”
Juelz is currently refocusing on his solo career as well.
The Skull Gang Takeover mixtape will be almost immediately followed by the Harlemite’s solo Regan Era mixtape, due out before the end of the year.
Both releases are paving the way for Juelz’ highly anticipated third studio album Born to Lose, Bred to Win, which he says will hit stores at the end of the year.
And although there’s some tension between the remaining Diplomats and Cam’ron, Juelz Santana remained loyal to an absentee Cam’ron.
“Me, Jim and Zeek is in the studio damn near every day,” says Juelz. “We wouldn’t be disrespectful and try to put out a Dip Set album without Cam. We just gon’ wait til he comes back. Nobody can find the third party though. What if your boss decides to say ‘I quit,’ you not gon’ work no more?”
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G-PAIN:
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SURE CAM'RON, CRIME PAYS, BUT IT ALSO COSTS:
By Ismael AbduSalaam
Brothers Demetrius “Big Meech” and Terry “Southwest T” Flenory were sentenced yesterday (September 12) to 30 years in prison, for running the cocaine organization known as The Black Mafia Family.
Demetrius and Terry were apprehended in 2005 and indicted under the CCE (Continuing Criminal Enterprise) law, which like RICO charges carry life sentences.
Under the federal prison system, there is no parole option.
Seeking to avoid spending the rest of their natural lives in prison, the brothers pleaded guilty in November 2007 to the CCE charges and laundering drug money in hopes of serving the minimum 20 year sentence.
However, evidence presented by prosecutors resulted in 30 year sentences for both men. BMF was founded by the brothers in Detroit during the late 1980s.
After quickly securing valuable contacts with international coke suppliers, the organization grew to a nationwide criminal conspiracy within a few years.
The group began to draw unwanted attention from federal agents in 2003 once they established a high-profile operation in Atlanta, where they erected billboards, held lavish parties, created DVDs, and boasted of their connections with rappers Young Jeezy and Fabolous.
Also notable in the organization’s downfall was Meech’s involvement in a brazen 2003 shootout in the Buckhead nightclub section of Atlanta that left two men dead, including Sean “Diddy” Combs’ bodyguard Anthony “Wolf” Jones.
In 2005, agents raided several key BMF operations in Georgia, Michigan, Florida, South Carolina, Tennessee, Missouri, and California.
To date, those raids have resulted in over 150 indictments of BMF members or associates, effectively dismantling the drug empire.
According to authorities, these convictions of BMF’s top members end a 15 year investigation into the Black Mafia Family’s criminal enterprise.
At their peak, Demetrius (age 40) and Terry (age 38) Flenory are estimated to have controlled a cocaine empire worth $270 million.
http://allhiphop.com/stories/news/archive/2008/09/13/20496781.aspx
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I GOT MY NEW SONG. F.A.I.L. IS NOW REAL. COLLIZHUN CAME THROUGH, AND TOUGH DUMPLIN DONE MURRRRKED THE SHIT LIKE BLAOW! I'M READY FOR MY CLOSE UP, WORLD.
THIS SONG IS THE FIRST OF MANY MORE MURDERS THAT I AM ABOUT TO COMMIT. PEACE TO DRAKE WHO IS PROBABLY SMART TO NOT SIGN TO YOUNG MONEY EVEN THOUGH HE'S OBVIOUSLY WRITING FOR LIL WAYNE, AND IS THE BEST RAPPER ON THE LABEL BESIDES WEEZY.
THIS WEEKEND:
I SAW CADENCE WEAPON RAP. MAD LOVE!
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I SAW ESTHERO GLOW. MAD LOVE!
I SAW MY FUTURE. BRIGHT!
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