by Anna Coogan
Wednesday August 10 2011
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As far as chimpanzee experiments go, this may have been one of the more palatable. but even a research trial with the best of intentions can turn out to be beastly.so it was with the unfortunate case of test subject Nim Chimpsky, the ape born in a cage in 1973, taken from his mother and then raised with people as a “person” in upscale New York. the thought was that he would evolve toward human behavior and capabilities.when the situation turned predictably hopeless, the project was abandoned and Nim Chimpsky lived for two more decades, lonely and confused. he died of a heart attack at age 26.this is the subject of James Marsh’s and Simon Chinn’s award-winning documentary “Project Nim,” a 2011 Sundance Film Festival Best Directing for World Documentary recipient that will be shown at the Bantam Cinema next weekend.If the trial had been a success, perhaps teaching our closest relatives in the animal kingdom to communicate and clearly express themselves could have proven an elucidating endeavor. but the experiment recounted in this cinematic tale turned out to be more “Island of Dr. Moreau” than “Dr. Doolittle.”Nim Chimpsky did learn to sign 120 words, and could express to humans a few emotions and physiological reactions in rudimentary fashion. but he could barely communicate with, or relate to, his own species.with a corrupted sense of self-identity, his behavior became increasingly erratic, which was made doubly alarming given his magnified strength. the chimpanzee often reminded those around him that he was not a man, but an animal, and one that would bite and scratch.in fact, Nim Chimpsky once mauled the face of a female researcher—a precursor to the February 2009 incident in which a male chimp named Travis, who was kept as a pet, attacked a friend of his owner in Stamford, CT.for a brief time Nim was a celebrity; New York Magazine did a cover story on him when he was 14 months old, not yet with superhuman strength but able to demonstrate some sign language vocabulary.Though the writer, Stuart Bauer, said the chimp “has star quality,” photographer Harry Benson saw something more ominous in the diapered ape being paraded around like a human toddler. Continued…12See full StoryReader Comments »View reader comments (0) » Comment on this story »Nim Chimpsky, the subject of a documentary to be screened at Bantam Cinema in a special program involving members of the family Nim lived with as part of a research project.View and purchase photos“he was a cute, wee chimp with a kind little face, but I couldn’t help feeling sorry for him, seeing him in clothes and being turned into a human being,” said Mr. Benson, whose father worked at the Glasgow Zoo. “I knew sufficient stuff about primates to know it would end in a mess. they can only go three years before they turn vicious.”Not to be confused with Rupert Wyatt’s “Rise of the Planet of the Apes,” a reboot of the classic series that has an army of super-intelligent lab chimps revolt against people and opens nationally this weekend, “Project Nim” airs at Bantam Cinema on Saturday, Aug. 13.there will be a lecture and question-and-answer session following the 12:30 p.m. showing. it will be moderated by University of Connecticut professor Davyne Verstandig, not MIT professor Noam Chomsky, after whom Nim Chimpsky was named. it will include an appearance by Stephanie and Jennifer Lafarge, from the family that took in Nim Chimpsky.there will be showings that day at 3:45, 5:45 and 8 p.m., as well as other subsequent times. for more information, see the Web site at www.bantamcinema.com.12See full StoryReader Comments »View reader comments (0) » Comment on this story »Nim Chimpsky, the subject of a documentary to be screened at Bantam Cinema in a special program involving members of the family Nim lived with as part of a research project.View and purchase photos123See full StoryReader Comments »View reader comments (0) » Comment on this story »Nim Chimpsky, the subject of a documentary to be screened at Bantam Cinema in a special program involving members of the family Nim lived with as part of a research project.View and purchase photos1234See full StoryReader Comments »View reader comments (0) » Comment on this story »By JACK CORAGGIONim Chimpsky, the subject of a documentary to be screened at Bantam Cinema in a special program involving members of the family Nim lived with as part of a research project.View and purchase photosLITCHFIELD—As far as chimpanzee experiments go, this may have been one of the more palatable. but even a research trial with the best of intentions can turn out to be beastly.so it was with the unfortunate case of test subject Nim Chimpsky, the ape born in a cage in 1973, taken from his mother and then raised with people as a “person” in upscale New York. the thought was that he would evolve toward human behavior and capabilities.when the situation turned predictably hopeless, the project was abandoned and Nim Chimpsky lived for two more decades, lonely and confused. he died of a heart attack at age 26.this is the subject of James Marsh’s and Simon Chinn’s award-winning documentary “Project Nim,” a 2011 Sundance Film Festival Best Directing for World Documentary recipient that will be shown at the Bantam Cinema next weekend.If the trial had been a success, perhaps teaching our closest relatives in the animal kingdom to communicate and clearly express themselves could have proven an elucidating endeavor. but the experiment recounted in this cinematic tale turned out to be more “Island of Dr. Moreau” than “Dr. Doolittle.”Nim Chimpsky did learn to sign 120 words, and could express to humans a few emotions and physiological reactions in rudimentary fashion. but he could barely communicate with, or relate to, his own species.with a corrupted sense of self-identity, his behavior became increasingly erratic, which was made doubly alarming given his magnified strength. the chimpanzee often reminded those around him that he was not a man, but an animal, and one that would bite and scratch.in fact, Nim Chimpsky once mauled the face of a female researcher—a precursor to the February 2009 incident in which a male chimp named Travis, who was kept as a pet, attacked a friend of his owner in Stamford, CT.for a brief time Nim was a celebrity; New York Magazine did a cover story on him when he was 14 months old, not yet with superhuman strength but able to demonstrate some sign language vocabulary.Though the writer, Stuart Bauer, said the chimp “has star quality,” photographer Harry Benson saw something more ominous in the diapered ape being paraded around like a human toddler.“he was a cute, wee chimp with a kind little face, but I couldn’t help feeling sorry for him, seeing him in clothes and being turned into a human being,” said Mr. Benson, whose father worked at the Glasgow Zoo. “I knew sufficient stuff about primates to know it would end in a mess. they can only go three years before they turn vicious.”Not to be confused with Rupert Wyatt’s “Rise of the Planet of the Apes,” a reboot of the classic series that has an army of super-intelligent lab chimps revolt against people and opens nationally this weekend, “Project Nim” airs at Bantam Cinema on Saturday, Aug. 13.there will be a lecture and question-and-answer session following the 12:30 p.m. showing. it will be moderated by University of Connecticut professor Davyne Verstandig, not MIT professor Noam Chomsky, after whom Nim Chimpsky was named. it will include an appearance by Stephanie and Jennifer Lafarge, from the family that took in Nim Chimpsky.there will be showings that day at 3:45, 5:45 and 8 p.m., as well as other subsequent times. for more information, see the Web site at www.bantamcinema.com.
No, that’s not some horrible monster crawling its way through cyberspace – it’s a shocking new hairstyle that a male celebrity is now rocking.
But who could be the owner of this ”Jung Jun Ha Perm”?
…It’s none other than Super Junior’s Kim Heechul!
A total of 14 celebrities are currently primed to take on the Silverstone Grand Prix track, raising money for the Bobby Moore Fund for Cancer Research UK in the Celebrity Challenge at this weekend’s Silverstone Classic.
Latest to gain their race licenses and join the grid for the weekend are Sky Sports presenter Vicky Gomersall and BBC Radio’s Sally ‘Traffic’ Boazman.
COLUMBIA — Two young women sat underneath a tent Sunday afternoon to shield themselves from the sun as they waited for groups of golf carts to park nearby at the 13th hole at the Country Club of Missouri.
When I was a University student back in the 1980s, Britain’s periodical The News Of The World had a worldwide reputation for scandal and celebrity news as well as having a regular feature of a fairly tame photo of a topless woman on an interior page of the newspaper. although the photo of the “pin-up girl” was done to elicit the attention of male readers like me, the newspaper had its fair share of female readers, who enjoyed its comprehensive news of the royal family, plus little tidbits of bizarre news, often too bizarre to believe, yet humorous enough to satisfy a thirst for occasional bits of “weird news”.
a leading psychologist at the University of Contemporary Life Studies in Oldham, Professor Bernard "Yozzer" Hill, has announced that reading saturated celebrity tittle tattle on a daily basis can convert reasonably intelligent people into slavering morons.Especially females.Exposure to a constant barrage of utter drivel, such as the dimensions of J-Lo's arse, Katie Price's breasts, everyday dramas such as Charlie Sheen and Lindsay Lohan's rehab episodes, and the party nightmares of such as Amy Winehouse and Pete Doherty, apparently really do rot the brain and turn it to mulch.Research reveals that people who devour celebrity drivel, if only in order to look down their noses and sneer at the pathetic caricatures who constitute modern day celebrity, eventually become profoundly affected by it.for women, the focal point is to look 'hot,' like Pussycat Doll, Nicole Scherzinger, or Cheryl Cole, or maybe even Lady Gaga trapped in a burning building – but with no focus on intelligence or spiritual enrichment, many women get sucked into a vortex of Jimmy Choo shoes, Victoria Beckham dresses, plastic surgery, fast cars, shagging Z-List sports stars and alley cat morality.the men don't fare much better in the study, as the basis of male celebrity these days tends to involve consorting with a string of models, crashing expensive cars, getting involved in night club brawls and getting absolutely hammered on drink and drugs."Continual exposure to this sort of bollocks inevitably has a knock-on effect," Professor Hill told a focus group. "Basically, the message is that thin is good, infidelity is fine, cosmetic surgery is essential, substance abuse is heroic, and looking vaguely idiotic is the ultimate goal. when intelligent people get sucked into believing this bullshit is when their brains start to degenerate into frog spawn. It's like being hit in the head continuously with a hammer – eventually something will give way. My advice to all reasonable thinking people would be to avoid this kind of thing at all costs and do a crossword puzzle, or play chess or something. Reading about Simon Cowell's teeth, or Kim Kardashian getting vajazzled won't do you any good at all in the long run."more as we get it.
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X FACTOR judge Louis Walsh last night described “malicious” allegations of sexual assault against him as “the worst episode of my life”.
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The tearful star spoke out over claims he groped a male fan – and has been comforted by a raft of celebrities, including Simon Cowell, Cheryl Cole and Sir Elton John.
— — I found myself unexpectedly enraptured by this year’s NBA finals. I’m not a big basketball fan, though I don’t dislike the sport. But I wasn’t watching for the games, so much as the cultural melodrama that played out alongside the games on that hard court. LeBron James is as big a celebrity athlete as we have in America today. he is watched and scrutinized as carefully as the last athlete of his stature, Mohammed Ali. But there exists a difference now in how we approach athletes who reach the pinnacle of stardom. Ali was controversial for his brash persona and his opposition to Vietnam. Plenty of people didn’t much care for his rope-a-dope routine. But when the country stopped to watch him fight people marveled at his talent. They wanted to see him deliver the punch, equal parts thunder and lightning, that would put his opponent down for the count. it is different today. James, the self-annointed king, seems to have been invented to fail and in that failure we find more delight than we would have if he’d succeeded. his astonishingly self-involved decision to bolt from his hometown on live television — he called the hour-long program “the Decision,” as if somehow picking where he plays ball is in need of capitalization — left many of us angry. I was. Living in a similarly down-trodden and hapless town that loves its ever-failing sports teams, I related to the scorn Cleveland fans felt when LeBron said he was going to leave for the much sexier Miami. it was the ultimate betrayal of a Rust Belt crowd, to watch your favorite son make such a production of making you the fool. But the dislike was always bubbling under the surface, even when James made his straight-from-high-school debut in the pros. Skipping college all together, he went straight to the NBA and multi-million dollar endorsements with Nike, Gatorade and the like. This, too, was chaffing. Here was this teenager built like a man, but who had paid none of the dues that male athlete celebrity normally demands. the comparisons to Jordan were being made before LeBron had ever taken a shot. Sometimes, we get what we demand. Just as Ali was a product of the 60s and all of that hedonism, bravado and countercultural angst, LeBron is a product of this age in America, one where genuine talent is co-opted by a corporate structure that seeks to distill the greatness of an athlete and pour it into a soda bottle to be sold off 99 cents at a time. it is in this context that I feel sorry for LeBron James. he cannot possibly own his talent, like Ali did; like Jordan did. we live in a world now, where everything — even something as pure and simple as a jump shot — is securitized and traded. So one might understand James’s frustration at the backlash. when he struck out on his own to attempt to take back his career from the executives who, before he was even out of high school, were plotting ways to cash in on him, people called him selfish. his response befits what he is — a high school educated guy in his 20s. Strip away all the talent, all the designer suits and fast cars and what you’ll find is a guy who’s trying to make sense of a very complicated world. James seemed, to me at least, genuinely surprised by the backlash that resulted in his decision to play in Miami. of course, he shouldn’t have been, but that is another story. his press conference after the Heat lost to the Dallas Mavericks smacked of bitterness and condescension: “all the people that were rooting on me to fail, at the end of the day they have to wake up tomorrow and have the same life that they had before they woke up today.” Yes, LeBron: Haters gonna hate — even you. still, I wonder what more we should expect from him when we live in a society where we allow ourselves to be overrun by Celebrity, inc. we put our greatest on pedestals, only to shake them until they fall. then we rather happily pretend that the guy had it coming. I don’t hate LeBron James. I don’t much care for him, either. I am interested in what he represents and all of the things he says about the rest of us. As the folk singer Ani DiFranco wrote of this America, “we build empires of style and carbonated sugar water” — so we shouldn’t be all that shocked when the guy hawking it to us is more complicated than his smiling face on the label might imply. Eric DuVall is the managing editor of the Tonawanda News. his column appears Wednesdays and Sundays. Contact him at eric.duvall@tonawanda-news.com.
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Wednesday 22 June 2011
Temperature: 10 C to 16 C
Wind direction: South west
Thursday 23 June 2011
Temperature: 7 C to 13 C
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Saturday 25 June 2011
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Anything you can ever say about supermodel Jessica White has already been said. call her an angel, a diva, a bad girl or the past girlfriend of [insert male celebrity name here]—she’s heard it all before, multiple times. For the woman who’s been a face of CoverGirl, Maybelline, Victoria’s Secret, and several Sports Illustrated Swimsuit issues (she’s been featured every year since 2003), it makes sense why her exposure makes her a prime subject of tabloid fodder. yet despite what gossip mills have fed the public about her, the 26-year-old Buffalo, New York, native has kept herself a relative mystery—until now. White, whom Tyra Banks has dubbed “the model of our generation,” is slowly becoming a self-made mogul. Not only is she starting a skin care line to address the needs of women of color, writing her own autobiography, and filming her own documentary series, but she has also started Angel Wings Foundation, the sole mission of which is to provide support for victims of sexual abuse, an experience that doesn’t exactly escape her. We spoke to while she is in New York for Angel Wings Foundation’s benefit for UNICEF‘s City of Joy Program (taking place this Sunday evening, in Wainscott) to discuss the organization itself, how she’s comfortable with being completely bare on camera, and the man she will one day marry. and, guess what—you have a chance!
In the home nation of the original Olympics, more than 7,500 athletes from 185 nations, including 315 from the United States, will compete in 22 Olympic sports. an additional 25,000 volunteers will travel to Athens.
The DiSantis will have eyes for only one athlete: Samantha DiSanti, a rising senior at Severna Park High School.
In the upcoming J. Edgar Hoover biopic, Armie Hammer plays Clyde Tolson, Hoover’s protege and “extra special friend.” and since Leonardo DiCaprio plays Hoover, the two had a gay kissing scene. Did Hammer feel weird about it? Apparently not as weird as everyone else:
It’s graduation season and with that comes hilarious celebrity commencement speeches at renowned universities and colleges. in honor of the Class of 2011, Celebuzz gives you our favorite graduation speeches, so far, of the year! from Amy Poehler to Tom Hanks, check out the inspiring and humorous public discourse. Tom Hanks, Yale University- “the world you now inherit, whether you like it or not. the jig is up.”
Apart from being director Federico Fellini’s most decisive step toward his characteristic surrealist style, La Dolce Vita’s portrayal of the search by a thirty-something journalist (Marcello Mastroianni) for a way out of his bohemian lifestyle has left an indelible impact on the way filmmakers have since depicted male celebrities in crisis. Starting Friday, Film Forum screens a newly restored print of Fellini’s colossal film, now celebrating its 51st anniversary.