Toggle Event OverlayScheduleEventsResultsvs Paul RutiglianoTitle:Assistant AD - Director of Letterwinners EngagementEmail:pwrutigliano@liberty.eduBioPaul Rutigliano has been a part of Liberty’s football program for more than two decades including his second stint with the team that began in January 2006 In his current position as Assistant Athletics Director for Football Administration Rutigliano oversees the overall operations for the football program His responsibilities include budget management and business operations while working closely with the President’s Office on specially assigned projects Rutigliano took on additional responsibilities prior to the start of the 2016 when he resumed his role as the football program’s recruiting coordinator During the first several years of his return to the football staff Rutigliano helped the Flames secure some of the nation’s best NCAA FBS opponents the Flames squared off against Toledo (2007) to mark the program’s second victory over an FBS opponent management and marketing of Park ‘N Go – a company which develops and manages off-airport property at major airports Rutigliano first joined the Flames' football coaching staff in 1989 under his father working alongside his father as his 11-year career (1989-99) allowed him to becoming the winningest coach in program history While working on staff under the Liberty Athletics Hall of Fame coach Rutigliano served as wide receivers coach and recruiting coordinator (1989-93) and as the director of football operations (1994-99) Rutigliano helped Pat Nelson set a then school record with 1,075 receiving yards during the 1991 season who had a 10-year playing career in the NFL with the Seattle Seahawks (1994-98) Dallas Cowboys (1999-2000) and the Miami Dolphins (2001-03) Rutigliano’s first professional position came with the NBC affiliate in Cleveland as an on-air talent and writer he left NBC and joined the International Management Group IMG - a global company operating in thirty countries with clients and corporations in Sports & Entertainment and Media he worked in Team Sports and corporate marketing after spending six years as an account executive for International Management Group in Cleveland Rutigliano began his football career at Holliston High School Rutigliano then received a football scholarship to the University of New Hampshire Rutigliano transferred in his final year to Cleveland State University and earned a bachelor of science in communications Masthead About Advertisers: Contact Us Privacy Policy Become a member for as low as $5/month Brookdale Community College student Antonette Rutigliano has won a brand-new Lenovo laptop after participating in the college’s Technology Usage and Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) survey aimed at assessing student perspectives on technology needs and the potential transition to a BYOD model garnered an impressive response rate thanks to the generous incentive provided by Lenovo The BYOD survey invited students to share their insights on existing technological resources It also gauged opinions on the feasibility and impact of a BYOD model which would allow students to use their personal electronic devices for academic purposes Participants had the opportunity to enter a random drawing to win a state-of-the-art Lenovo laptop which supports institutions in evaluating new technology a psychology major in her second semester at Brookdale was excited to learn she was the lucky winner among nearly 500 student respondents Accompanied by her mother for the official laptop presentation she expressed gratitude for the opportunity and shared her enthusiasm for the college’s technological initiative It was a great opportunity to provide input and I never expected to win,” Antonette said “Having my own laptop will definitely make my studies more convenient.” Brookdale’s Office of Information Technology (OIT) played a pivotal role in organizing the survey which saw an unprecedented response compared to similar initiatives at peer institutions “We typically struggle to get student participation in surveys we received responses from about 5% of our student body—an outstanding turnout,” said OIT Manager John Venta a similar survey conducted by another college which has three times the number of students received only a fraction of the responses.” The survey results will guide Brookdale’s ongoing discussions about implementing a BYOD model Preliminary findings indicate that many students support the concept citing benefits such as familiarity with their own devices and increased accessibility and technical support were also highlighted and will be considered in future planning Lenovo’s generous laptop donation underscores the company’s commitment to educational institutions and technological advancement which features an upgraded webcam and enhanced functionality As Brookdale explores the next steps in its technology strategy students like Antonette Rutigliano exemplify the importance of student engagement in shaping the college’s future Congratulations to Antonette and thank you to all the students who participated in the survey to help enhance Brookdale’s technological landscape GET STARTED FIND MY PATH five people cross paths as they work the late shift: a bartender the steward of the derelict church that looms over them and the editor-in-chief of the college paper One dark October evening in the defunct churchyard they realize he may be the key to a string of strange happenings around town that have made headlines for the last few weeks—and that they may be closer to the mystery than they thought with the ensemble cast her fans love and a delightfully familiar academic backdrop Graveyard Shift is a modern Gothic tale in If We Were Villains author M Our editor Olivia Rutigliano sat down with Rio to talk about writing habits This interview has been edited for concision and clarity Olivia Rutigliano: Congratulations very much on the publication of Graveyard Shift O.R.: Would you like to say a little bit about how this idea came to you M.L.R: Graveyard Shift was  unusual in its inception My publisher actually approached me because Barnes & Noble had approached them about doing a novella my publisher then called me and asked the same question I was in the middle of writing another book at the time “sure… let me look through the story drawer and see what I’ve got.” And I had this old idea that I’d been kicking around for But I wasn’t quite sure what format would  work for it It didn’t feel big enough to be a novel might be perfect for this.” That that was  the all of these different characters meet smoking in the evening outside this church in this college town How were you inspired to set the story that way the smoking policy that you couldn’t smoke within a hundred feet of any campus building Which basically meant that you couldn’t smoke anywhere because the entire town was campus buildings So people had found these funny little pockets on campus of places they could smoke and one was like this flagpole on the North Quad You would always see this like sad little nod of people just like huffing desperately around this flagpole in the rain or whatever because it was the only place they could stand And the other place I used to see people occasionally smoking was in this cemetery behind my dorm Where I used to hang out just because I had  strange morbid interests even then And so I used to like an absolute lunatic just go walking through the cemetery like in my pajamas in the middle of the night and I started seeing people in there just kinda standing around and smoking and was like people who were working the night shift and just needed a smoke break What an interesting way to  develop a report with some people who otherwise really have nothing in common this is one of the great fungus-forward novels of recent years Can you talk a little bit about the fungus and ergotism and the fascinating mycological world that you bring us into with this novel M.L.R.: I’ve always  had a thing for mushrooms I don’t know why… just from a young age We lived in a lot of really humid environments when I was a kid and every fall we would get these fantastic jack o lantern mushrooms which are these wild orange mushrooms that glow in the dark And it just seems like one of those things that is too  charming and weird to be real and I also had a really weird early fixation on Lewis Caroll and got very into the  Alice in Wonderland… trippy children’s literature that’s not really for children and it really took a turn in my PhD program but because I ended up reading a lot more science writing than I had in previous years And it turned into something a little bit more academic I also have always had  morbid literary interests I was very fond of the Victorian Gothic when I was at that angsty adolescent high school reading stage and there is a lot of overlap between the Gothic and  proto-science fiction you think about things like Frankenstein and Jekyll and Hyde and where Ven Helsing is doing this  weird field medicine as I was thinking about Graveyard Shift in the context of  horror and the neo-gothic fungus just seemed like a really natural place to take that I think the reason we are fascinated and sometimes repulsed by fungus is we associate it with death and decay because it tends to grow on rotting things And I think we just find that naturally unsettling The other thing that’s really fascinating about fungus is mycelial networks have this really complex mode of communication that we don’t fully understand as humans It’s interesting and unsettling because it’s not plant life it’s a separate kingdom… it’s closer to animal life it’s closer to human life than it is to a lot of plant species But it has this weird alien sentience that we don’t quite understand And I think something about that uneasy liminal space between “is it sentient and I think that’s partly why we’re seeing a boom in… this fungal horror genre it just seemed like a natural fit with the cemetery It’s a place where you think about that space between life and death and you have to  confront the reality that it isn’t a binary It isn’t just “you’re alive and then you’re dead” but that the process of death biologically is in fact a process It’s unsettling to think about fungus  feasting on your body And there’s also this weird element with mushrooms where there is something fleshy about them Like we so often use portobello mushrooms as a substitute for meat That there’s also this very strange quasi-cannibalistic quality to it yeah… the wide weird world of fungus just became very interesting to me and I thought “what a fun thing to explore in fiction.” we chatted a little bit about your research as an Early Modernist and how that factored into your previous novel If We Were Villains but also the way that this novella deals with the proper ensemble cast I was wondering if you could talk a little bit about your research into this definitely more theatrically-forward time period of literary history and how that has influenced you as a novel writer I wrote Villains before I got my master’s degree It was the year before I went off to King’s College to do my MA in Shakespeare Studies and I wrote a bunch of novels that I knew weren’t very good and I wasn’t really sure why I was like “I’m writing a novel a year but all of these novels are bad.” Then when I was a senior in college I was taking three parts of Henry VIII and smashing them all together in one play performed in the forest theater with 10 actors playing 77 parts And I just had this lightbulb moment where I went why have you never written a book about this About this weird culty world of Shakespearean theater?” I had never seen it represented in fiction the way I had experienced it maybe you’re the person to write this novel “write what you know” is actually really good advice because there’s a certain authenticity and fiction that you really can’t fake M.L.R.: I think it’s telling that the people who love this book the most tend to be theater people who immediately recognize that world it has been a big influence on my writing and obviously it’s a little further removed from Shakespeare I ended up in the medical humanities camp where what I do is one part literary studies and one part history of science I’m looking at how those things intersect And so I fell down a lot of interesting rabbit holes of fascinating pre-modern scientific thought And one of them that informs Graveyard Shift has to do with Early Modern encounters with hallucinogenic plants and psychedelic experience Elmo’s fire and how that might explain some pre-modern witchcraft phases And that really did inform the writing of Graveyard Shift because I had this wonderful setting of this moldering old church and got to design this bizarre Boschian mural behind the altar that draws on all of that scientific and medical history it does still draw on my academic research I was wondering if we can pivot to talking about your next novel you’re gonna be so tired of talking about it you’ve got good timing because my production draft of Hot Wax is actually due tomorrow so I have been on tour for Graveyard Shift and doing the big final push for Hot Wax at the same time I actually wrote the first version of Hot Wax like seven years ago It was the first thing that I wrote after Villains that I really wanted to be my second novel But just because of what happened when Villains was first released (it didn’t have the warm reception that it got belatedly… you know three or four years after publication when it really found its audience) my agent and I had like four or five books die on sub because what editors kept telling us was but the sales numbers for your first novel just aren’t there And we can’t convince the publisher.” So that was heartbreaking because I was like 25 and thinking that Villains was going to be the start of my career… and it was looking like it was going to be the end crazy road trip concert tour novel that I was really in love with and my agent really loved I’ll put it aside and try the next thing and maybe I’ll come back to it someday.” And then the tables turned in our favor and Villains did find its people And suddenly people were interested in what I had to write “I really want to go out with the concert tour book again.” And she said Of all the stuff you’ve written in the last few years that’s the one that I still think about M.L.R.: So that’s another hat that I wear I’m just still in the camp of “write what you know,” because in addition to being an actor and an academic and a writer I do a lot of reviews and artist interviews and that thing I’ve also spent a lot of time in that world I’ve spent a lot of time backstage and with musicians and on the road with a couple of different bands that was something else that I really wanted to play with in fiction It’s another place for a great ensemble I’m still a performance studies scholar… I really love writing about performance And music in particular is such a delicious challenge as a writer because how do you render that in words and occasionally very frustrating creative endeavor do you want to talk a little bit about what it’s been like hopping back and forth between all of these different fields Do you want to talk a little bit more about the ways that this interdisciplinary background of yours has fueled you as a thinker and writer People are always surprised to hear me say things like my two primary interests as a young person were Shakespeare and David Bowie.” But I I actually think it’s also part of the same thing Music has always been a huge part of my writing process actually point zero for my writing process M.L.R.: I’m a really thorough outliner I can’t do anything flying by the seat of my pants I have this long discovery phase where all I’m doing is listening to a lot of music and doing a lot of reading and a lot of research to just get comfy in the world of the story before I actually try and put a narrative down Writing and music in particular have always been inseparable for me because I draw a lot of inspiration from music… whether I’m riding the vibe or if there’s just an image in a song that really sticks with me for whatever reason So I think at a certain point it was just logical to take all that practice all those hours and hours and hours and years and years of listening really fanatically… and turn it into a piece of fiction Because part of what I love to do with a novel is use it as a way to give somebody an entry point to something they might not know much about Because we have this idea that Shakespeare is like and so I’m in some ways doing a little bit of the same thing with Hot Wax but it’s about a lot of music that a lot of people probably aren’t thinking much about in 2024–a lot of obscure 80s alternative songs and that thing So I’m hoping that some people will read it and discover new old music or new genres of music that they maybe hadn’t listened to before what is one thing about the book that you would like me to have asked you or something you wanna tell about it I think one thing we haven’t talked about is just the form of the novella M.L.R.: That was not something I’ve done before I think because I’m a dyed-in-the-wool academic I really like playing with form and thinking about form and structure and not just “what’s the story I’m telling?” but how am I telling it and why am I telling it that way And I had never done a novella before and I am actually really a chronic overwriter I tend to write way too much and then have to pare it way back that’s like two short stories stuck together.” and it’s interesting–in a lot of our early reviews we’ve heard people saying things like “I’m just mad that this wasn’t longer that’s like the best criticism you can hear: “I wish there were more of this.” But I think one thing that people don’t entirely appreciate is how difficult it is to write a solid Especially when you have like five main characters (I refuse to write anything that has one main character.) So I was really thinking “how do I make these characters come through in such a short space?” And I landed on this fun format I knew I wanted to write a story that took place in only one night And that was drawing on this idea of Aristotle’s Three Unities He’s talking about what makes a good tragedy but one of his ideas is that a really good story should take place in 24 hours in one place and have a totally unified plot obviously that’s a little bit limiting but I did want to try it to see if I could do it where at the end of a chapter somebody hands the story off to the next person Which just worked really well… or at least I think it worked well And I ultimately had to write the first chapter of Graveyard Shift in like three weeks just because that’s how the timing worked I was scrambling to get it done and I was really stressed out and my partner knocked on the door and was sticking his head in I know you’re so stressed about this now it’s gonna be a masterpiece.” And I think I said to him “I’m not trying to write a masterpiece I’m trying to write like a mediocre episode of Scooby-Doo.” Then once I had said that that’s actually not a bad model for this And I kept that in mind of thinking about like we always want to be taken seriously as writers And I think sometimes we veer away from things that are just fun I think we need “more fun in the world,” to quote X I don’t think we should be afraid of fun and allergic to fun And I think you can do fun and you can do dark at the same time there’s a reason we have this thing called black comedy and sometimes the line between comedy and horror is really So I did want to play with that in the Graveyard Shift now I just want to ask one more thing… I mean I’m guessing we have some positive feelings about Scooby-Doo That’s one of the secret patron saint TV shows of CrimeReads I had a group of friends in high school who were all the Scooby-Doo gang for Halloween one year my brother and I were kids in the 90s and our Halloween tradition was we would just gorge ourselves on candy and watch it There was a Scooby-Doo movie that was on every year and I can’t remember the title of it It took place on a pepper plantation in Louisiana and it would have these like crazy zombie cat people Jacques Tourner’s The Cat People or something like that It was like Cat People meets Southern Gothic but make it ‘a Scooby-Doo movie.’ And sometimes I’m like my being in a sugar coma at age eight or something?’ But Scooby-Doo  is… I don’t watch very much TV but if I’m just flipping through the channels and it happens to be on then I will definitely watch an episode of Scooby-Doo O.R.: As soon as you said the fucked up episode of Scooby-Doo she’s gonna get hit with one more follow up I spend a lot of time talking about Shakespeare but I can also talk about weird kids cartoons This is what I and the readers of CrimeReads want to hear 2025 at 4:19 pm ET.css-79elbk{position:relative;}State Rep David Rutigliano performed a special guest reading for students at Tashua Elementary School to kick off reading week on Feb (Shutterstock)Information via House Republicans CT — Students and teachers gathered for an assembly Friday at Tashua Elementary School in Trumbull to kick off reading week with special activities including a special guest reading by State Rep According to a news release provided by House Republicans Rutigliano was honored to participate and administer the reading pledge to all the students at the assembly He also read the book "The Invisible Boy" by Trudy Ludwig for students and staff Principal Neumeyer and especially all of the students for allowing me to come and visit and read with them," Rutigliano said in a news release "I enjoyed seeing each and every one of their wonderful smiles Reading is one of the most impactful activities for a child's overall growth shaping their mind and character for the future." Get more local news delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up for free Patch newsletters and alerts. In the new installment of Alan Bradley’s beloved mystery series 12-year-old amateur sleuth Flavia de Luce investigates the murder of a former public hangman to prove her beloved housekeeper innocent of murder Taking her odious younger cousin along for the ride she uncovers a secret that brings the greatest shock of her life Our editor Olivia Rutigliano spoke to Bradley to talk about writing habits OR: The Flavia de Luce series is my favorite detective series of all time It had seemed to me like The Golden Tresses of the Dead was the final Flavia novel so I was thrilled when I learned that What Time the Sexton’s Spade Doth Rust was in the works And if you had intended on ending Flavia at the ten book mark was this 11th book a surprise to you just as much as me when The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie was being written I realized that I couldn’t do it all in one book And I told the publishers that I thought maybe it would be three books And I’m still not sure where the idea about the other one being the end of the series came from I was realizing that I needed to take a break to get some other things done And I had been writing a book a year at that point for almost 10 years and it was just absolutely a constant commitment to be there all the time every day writing and to provide a book on time to the publishers And I don’t think I ever missed during that time but I realized that I needed to have a little bit of a time out and do some more But I knew all the time that Flavia’s story wasn’t finished I think I knew in book one that she had a very long story to tell and that it would unravel itself if I sat there with a pencil in my hand that Flavia would fill in whatever I needed So I actually took a break for about five years It began as a year and then it became two years and And it finally became five years and the publishers were incredibly encouraging saying “do go on… we’re happy to see anything that you write.” I’ve said before: she wakes me up in the middle of the night and says write this down.” She’s very imperious and I fully get up and I jot down what it is or sometimes a description of somebody’s nose… or a good impression of someone or a smell and I just jot it down on whatever is close by It could be the flyleaf of a book or sometimes the back of my hand And then I compile all this stuff in a document on the word processor that goes on for dozens and dozens of pages comments sort of snarky remarks about things and I read it over and see if it has anything in common I’m thinking about what I would like to write about for the next year And I think you have to be really committed to do that because if you decide to do a mystery story about an apple orchard it’s going to be an enormous amount of research About apples and their history and their propagation and their use in poisons immediately you’re thinking snow white And I sort of assess how much research there’s going to be but that I know is going to be really interesting for a year And then I dive into it and I start reading just random books that I can dig up And the chemistry has to be all pre 1929 because of Uncle Tar And so I can’t use anything that’s later AB: And so I set up my course of reading and then I just wildly forage in these books and dig out curious information on things that appeal to me an opening paragraph or an opening sentence or setting will come to me and I can usually write that down fairly quickly And once you get your feet on the ground in Bishop’s Lacey then the rest of it is sort of a piece of cake AB: Yeah… just be quiet and listen to Flavia Just shut up and listen to Flavia and off she goes So that’s a long answer to your question OR: It’s a wonderful answer and it actually segues into something I wanted to ask… I imagine that any Flavia novel takes quite a bit of research I was wondering if you do research first and build a story or plot point around that Or if you conceive of the story first and then go back and find out what you need to know AB: don’t ever block the story out before I start writing I’m of the opposite belief that you put the character in the opening setting and then let them go I might have an idea what the overall theme of the book is or the overall I’ve tried to deal with things that don’t exist anymore: like in the first book And I really like working on a scene like that of something that interests me So we’ve had things like church architecture we’ve had a little bit about the history of the hangman I basically know what the setting is in a couple of words do you have a favorite among the Flavia books or was there one that was most particularly fun to research and write do you have a favorite character who’s not Flavia The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie I think has to be my all time favorite because it was the first and it was the one that won the Dagger Award that set me on this path The publishers told me it was the most award winning mystery ever and because of the sheer amount of research that I did and also all the experiences I had of traveling and meeting and talking to people during the book launches but they’re not the first  and I can appreciate that Sweetness I’m indebted to because it introduced I first discovered the Flavia books when I was working at my local library and I was working at my local library–where I had worked since I was 14 Because every summer when I’d come back from college or my job was just sort of always waiting for me and it was wonderful and I came across Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust and I loved the cover… I love that color blue ‘ll start this series.” I went downstairs to find the first book on the fiction shelf and I passed the small area where patrons could buy books that people had donated They were brand new and they were a dollar each And so I bought the first seven and I devoured them It felt like kismet that the moment I saw the brand spanking new copy of chimney sweepers on the shelf and said I’m going to go downstairs and see if we have the rest on the shelves Then I walked downstairs and I saw that they were there ready for me to take home So I took it as a sign It’s not a great story because the Flavia readers are a kind of special breed of people And I found that because the books are written for people who like the kind of things that I like it’s as if we’ve known one another all our lives We can fall into gabbing about… brass hinges on Victorian coffins or something like that I hope to be considered part of this delightful cohort Is there a favorite character of Flavia or non Flavia character And although Louise inspired the Flavia series by my wife hearing her talking on the radio and I finally got a chance to meet her and chat with her and we were talking about the characters in the book and I said that I feel honored to write the scenes with Flavia and Dogger there are scenes where I am very conscious of having to be the fly on the wall very quiet and just listen to what they’re talking about… resist any urge to dive in or state any of my opinions or steer the conversation because it will destroy the book and just listen to what they say and write it down very quietly It doesn’t matter if they go on for hours It’s almost like a blessing that comes on you when you’re doing that because these characters are coming from wherever it is that they exist and they’re choosing to carry on a very intimate conversation in front of you and I realize all the time that I mustn’t ever do anything to breach that profound trust that they have in me because I’m sort of their mouthpiece AB: I’m taking dictation and I must be accurate and it’s not any place for Alan Bradley to say anything at all And I enjoy it because it’s very quiet when Flavia and Dogger talk to one another I never know what they’re going to say Dogger is probably the character I love writing the most She comes out with quite outrageous things and I can really identify with her sometimes sour attitude towards people that don’t get books and I think she’s going to feature a lot in the next book Daphne has really been saying a lot of things about books to me and so now we’re sort of… we’re very close to a Daphne starring turn She’s always been sort of second fiddle to Flavia and we only see her reported through Flavia’s eyes We’ve never actually had Daffy have the ability It would be interesting to let her tell the story for a while but I can’t really in the format of the books I think we will continue to see her through Flavia’s eyes AB: And Undine has a lot in common with Daffy bringing her to the forefront of the mystery solving if I actually ever sat down and gave a list of my favorite things about the Flavia novels you have such a tremendous knack for finding the very best lines in English poetry and drama and turning them into titles as a former English major and former English literary scholar I am a big fan of 17th century graveyard poems I love finding out what the next title is going to be and and which poem it’ll remind me to reread Are they lines from poems you’ve always loved Or do you when you have a conceit of what the book is about this Thomas Parnell poem sort of has the right mood?” I mean I’d love to learn more about the process I like Parnell very much because of the vast amount of gruesome detail in it the titles are things that leap out at me from you’ll be happy to know that about a year ago I was proposing allowing Flavia to write a book of graveyard poetry and I compiled a vast amount of it And there’s so much wonderful material there but the publishers at the time were not really interested in that OR: I was wondering if you wanted to talk a bit about Sherlock Holmes and your relationship to that character AB: I’ve been fortunate enough to have read the Sherlock Holmes when I was very young and I had an uncle who brought me old English boys annuals like Chums and Boys Own Annual And they were full of serials about the wilds of Canada the Northwest Mountain Police and grizzly bears and all that kind of stuff he also brought me his two volume set of the complete Sherlock Holmes books I can still remember where I was in Toronto when I discovered the two volume edition of the Sherlock Holmes annotated by Baring-Gould Sherlock Holmes and folk singing and geology and many other things And it was he who phoned me one day and he said “I couldn’t sleep last night it came to me that Rex Stout was chastised for writing about how Watson was a woman and I’d been thinking about it all night And it wasn’t Watson that was a woman it was Holmes.” So he said “what do you think about that?” And he said the next day that my response was “tell me more.” And so we spent 10 years writing that book It took a long time because we were both always busy and it was very difficult to get time together OR: Is Flavia coming to the screen anytime soon A couple of years ago… it was optioned by a couple of very good producers They were the people who did the Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society And so they’ve been working very hard in the background of they got such a wonderful cast that it’s an absolute dream 2025 at 11:30 am ET.css-79elbk{position:relative;}State Rep David Rutigliano (R-123) will hold his regular monthly coffee hour in Trumbull for constituents in April David Rutigliano (R-123) will hold his regular monthly coffee hour for constituents Wednesday Rutigliano holds regular legislative coffee hours every first Wednesday of the month The legislative coffee hour will take place from 8 a.m located at 4235 Madison Avenue in Trumbull Rutigliano wants to hear from his constituents and any questions or concerns they might have about state government Anyone who is unable to attend but would like to talk to Rutigliano can call his State Capitol office at 1-800-842-1423 or email him at Dave.Rutigliano@housegop.ct.gov this project is a collaboration between director Rian Johnson and actress/producer Natasha Lyonne a sort-of-PI on the lam who can intuitively tell when people are lying Season One premiered in January 2024 and Season Two is finally here! According to Variety it will be premiering sometime this spring on the streaming service Peacock  Lyonne and Johnson released a joint statement about the Season and in Season 2 we’ve taken her journey to the next level one murder mystery at a time From minor league baseball to big box retail from funeral homes to alligator farms and even a grade school talent show Charlie navigates her crime solving existential road-trip with deadpan wit and her signature uncanny lie-detecting ability.” Season Two contains twelve episodes and will purportedly feature such guest stars as (in alphabetical order by first name): Alia Shawkat Variety also has exclusive photos from the season including one of Natasha Lyonne and three Cynthia Erivos (apparently she plays sextuplets) This is shaping up to be a very satisfying spring I rewatched The Living Daylights and was struck (yet again) by the singularity of Timothy Dalton’s James Bond This prompted a conversation between myself and my partner comparing the different elements of each Bond But then we realized… each Bond has a different flavor profile… rather like a martini variation I’ve already done a highly biased, very personal, somewhat ridiculous deep dive into the nuances between each Bond film but I’ve never looked at the differences between each of the individual 007s Disclaimer: I don’t know a thing about martinis the gentleman assisting me with this list with me used to be a bartender What I do know is… there are rules of the James Bond martini: shaken (not stirred) the twist is that Never Say Never Again gets made!) Rationale: There is absolutely nothing serious about Moore’s Bond when he’s a million years old and still romancing 20-something-year-olds Rationale: There is almost nothing unserious about Dalton’s Bond this is a Bond who will go off the rails and fully turn a spy caper into a revenge movie Rationale: I always feel bad for Pierce Brosnan when I watch his era of James Bond movies because his vibe is so erudite and sensitive He’s like your friend’s dad who is a Shakespeare lecturer at a nearby university who’s always in the backyard grilling wearing a “Kiss the Cook,” apron when you come over and then reading William Blake in his study until he drives you home Let him sip a gentle drink and bury his head in his books Dracula is the most powerful adaptation fad in recent times The count has sprung alive in incarnation after incarnation for approximately a century The Guinness Book of World Records counts Dracula as the most-played character of all time The Internet Movie Database lists on its website hundreds and hundreds of projects in which the character Dracula has appeared since 1917 when an unauthorized (and as far as scholars know) lost Danish film called The Death of Dracula appeared (It is unknown whether or not it had anything to do with Stoker’s novel.) as part of a plan to preserve and expand the power of Stoker’s novel (and bring in more revenue for his widow The fact that it has been accepted heartily in several media and many versions over a century reveals that is still in demand Skal quotes from American literary journal The Bookman “from the very first its sales were enormous the publishing company William Ryder and Sons released a new edition which would remain in print for more than forty years (Perhaps the only other long-lasting twentieth-century franchise to rival both multifariousness and heterogeneity of Dracula adaptations is that of Superman—while there are more live-action film and stage adaptations of the former than the latter the vast plethora of Superman comic books and television cartoons greatly exceed both in amount and in popularity the animated avatars of Dracula the likes of which include the Count Chocula cereal logo The tremendous frequency with which Dracula has been adapted since 1922 has led to something more significant than simply a plethora of Dracula versions however: it has resulted in many different stories about Dracula And this is “the problem with Dracula adaptations” that I found: the Dracula adaptation canon is replete with grandiose textual infidelity or Cinema as Digest,” André Bazin argues that the actual problem of adaptation is the paradox brought on by misconceptions of both the purpose of adaptation and the necessity of fidelity; nothing can truly be adapted faithfully without being considered a reproduction making changes that facilitate a textual version’s formal transformation into a cinematic one does not seem to be the system behind many of the specific changes made during the dozens of times Dracula has been brought to the screen—such as the addition of romances The problem I have found is that many of these adaptive changes are not necessarily in line with what Bazin advocates The objective he champions is capturing the spirit of the original work many films name themselves after Dracula without adopting many of the facets of the novel’s ethos It’s insane that there hasn’t been one yet I wondered after watching many of the major films that an adaptation canon with so many films to its name could not feature even a single one which told the story that the book did And it’s not just any book—it is an extremely popular with a tuxedoed and thoroughly foreign Bela Lugosi as the eponymous vampire Renfield is the solicitor who arrives in Transylvania and Lucy’s function has been given to Mina and Jonathan Harker is a vampire hunter who heads to his castle to kill him Holmwood and Van Helsing team up to save Lucy The 1979 Frank Langella film is very similar to the Browning film except Dracula is now a Byronic lone wolf who shares with Lucy (in Mina’s role One of the more faithful Dracula films I had encountered was Francis Ford Coppola’s 1992 Bram Stoker’s Dracula loyal exception because all of the characters from the novel that were often written out or combined with others in many Dracula versions are fully intact this same version also situates in the film’s exposition a Medieval vampire origin story involving an Ottoman invasion and adds to the main plot a love story between Dracula and Mina the latter of whom is apparently the reincarnation of Dracula’s dead wife My quest to find a loyal Dracula adaptation proved successful when I came across a version that had been written in 1897, by Bram Stoker, himself and was published for the first time one hundred years later During a century in which Dracula had exploded in popularity it turns out that the author was the only man to ever closely adapt the novel and was most likely written for to give Stoker a copyright against any pirated stage adaptations The thing is that Dracula might simply be un-adaptable too cumbersome and complicated to be brought to a streamlined cinematic narrative But I feel like now we’re not even trying which promised to bring to screen the one scene from the novel Dracula that is almost never given screentime It feels like we’re mired in postmodernism a little too deeply to return to the text of Dracula But I long for the day a filmmaker gives us a film that responds to the book There aren’t many crime writers of old I’d like to hang out with meeting the artist is the worst thing you can do about it Sayers is one of the crime writers I’d like to meet or have met I wish I could have watched her give one of her many lectures or talks or readings I’ve assembled a few of the very hilarious things she said in and around and about detective fiction I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: “it’s not easy playing second fiddle.” For most of the twentieth and twenty-first century Dr turned-into-a-joke characters in all of Western literature there hasn’t exactly been a drought of good Watsons So much so that I’m still surprised every time there’s a Watson character in a Holmes adaptation that presents him as smart and/or capable Am I talking about the upcoming animated children’s series that portrays Watson as a cat? No a new show on CBS that concentrates on the life Dr Watson is played by Morris Chestnut and he lives in Pittsburgh The conceit of the show is that Holmes seems to die in his showdown with Moriarty at the Reichenbach Falls Watson is sad about the loss of his friend so he moves to Pittsburgh (that’s how you know he’s depressed) and opens a clinic there that specializes in strange cases and disorders Solving weird medical mysteries is the episode-by-episode plot it seems like Moriarty might actually still be alive and so Watson has to confront his past and step up to stop him and I feel this hasn’t gotten enough attention but uh… Matt Berry plays Holmes in voiceover and flashbacks (I have no idea what the chemistry between Matt Berry and Morris Chestnut would be like… no idea!) And actually I just looked and Randall Park plays Professor Moriarty… and now I really have no idea what the chemistry of this whole show is like This show really just seems to be a grab bag of working actors at this point if this move to give Watson his own show is reflective of an overwhelming cultural tide of Watson trutherism sympathetic and knowledgeable readings of a character written as a cool pretty smart guy with enough Main Character Energy to be the protagonist and narrator of the stories about him But the cartoon below (which came out in January 1993) I first saw on a monthly Far Side calendar that my mom had hanging up the butler always does it,” my mom told me And then everything clicked… the hilariousness of the prospect of a butler being murdered at a convention of butlers about how this conceit would make a perfect meta murder mystery This cartoon contains one of the best exemplars of Far Side humor… the fact that the punchline is one degree removed from the joke of the whole conceit It’s not an observation about the funny thing it’s a remark that already absorbs and acknowledges the funny thing Of course the detective wouldn’t want to start a Monday with a case like that There’s a new murder mystery series coming to Netflix It’s a “screwball” “whodunnit” set in the “White House.” I said that in the title it’s set among the staff of the White House It’s like Upstairs/Downstairs meets The West Wing Or it’s like Downton Abbey meets Scandal but with comedy Case in point: this is the advertising logline that appeared on Twitter: The show features an impressive roster of stars detective Cornelia Cupp (Is “Cornelia Cupp” a play on “Benoit Blanc?” We will find out.) She performs opposite:  Giancarlo Esposito A character knowingly says “murder mysteries are so popular right now.” Indeed A weekly behind-the-scenes dive into everything interesting and wonderful happening in literary culture—featuring Lit Hub staff sharing excerpts and explaining how they encapsulate Lit Hub’s approach to the Trump administration because our revolution must include the joyful things as well we introduce a new recurring segment: “Culture Schlock” with Olivia Rutigliano we’re headed to Sherlock Holmes week Also, U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy, D-CT, won re-election and a third term in Congress For U.S. Congress, the Associated Press reports Democrat Jim Himes is the projected winner against Republican candidate Michael Goldstein and Independent candidate Benjamin Wesley See also: CT 4th Congressional District Race: Himes Wins Re-Election, AP Reports The Connecticut Post reports Sujata Gadkar-Wilcox, a Democrat, declared victory Tuesday night over Republican Chris Carrena and Independent Robert Edward Halstead in the race for state senator For state representative, the candidates in District 123 were Thomas Tesoro, Democrat, versus David Rutigliano Tesoro is also endorsed by the Working Families Party and Rutigliano is also endorsed by the Independent Party In District 112, the candidates were Beth Cliff, Democrat, versus Tony Scott Cliff is also endorsed by the Working Families Party and the Independent Party In District 122, the candidates were Dorothy "Dottie" Lerner, Democrat, versus Ben McGorty In District 134, the candidates were Sarah Keitt, Democrat, versus Melissa Longo Keitt is also endorsed by the Working Families Party and the Independent Party For Registrar of Voters the candidates were: Jean Rabinow Results for these races were not available before midnight on Election Night Connecticut voters also were asked to decide on the following ballot question: "Shall the Constitution of the State be amended to permit the General Assembly to allow each voter to vote by absentee ballot?" CT Insider reports the absentee ballot question has passed, with over 50 percent of voters selecting "yes," according to unofficial results Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr that the First Amendment right was not allowable if it hindered larger national strategic operations but his particular phrasing of this verdict is notable for its idiosyncratic turn of phrase: he claimed that the right to free speech does not excuse “falsely shouting fire in a theater and causing panic.” This is a highly curious reference to make in a case entirely unrelated to panic (or fire) of any kind this case referred to Joseph Schenck’s being tried for printing and disseminating materials encouraging men to boycott the current wartime draft The verdict was that Schenck’s arrest in fact upheld the Espionage Act of 1917 which principally sought to prevent non-authorized individuals from interfering with larger military-related situations or ventures the risks were vastly greater in the nineteenth-century Holmes’s locution confirms theater fires as common cultural knowledge Holmes’s phrasing also equates unconstitutional behavior with unmitigated danger is that he specifically equates inappropriately free speech with deliberately and falsely drumming up panic the theater fires connote confusion: public hysteria which principally results from authority or authoritative-seeming presence muddling together what is real There were sensationalistic accounts published about real-life and recent theater fires which emphasized gruesome details in order to sell copies less than a year after the deadly Iroquois Theater fire a writer named Marshall Everett compiled an account of the fire entitled The Great Chicago Theater Disaster which featured the following subheadings: “Presenting a Vivid Picture of One of the Greatest Fire Horrors of Modern Times,” “Embracing a Flash-Light Sketch of the Holocaust Detailed Narratives by Participants in the Horror Reports of Building Experts as to the Responsibility for the Wholesale Slaughter of Women and Children etc.,” and “Profusely Illustrated with Views of the Scene of Death Before there were well-meaning reports that co-opted this sensational announcing disasters with gripping phrases In February 1875 (thirty years before Chicago’s deadly Iroquois Theater Fire) the Chicago Times ran an enormous front-page spread about a local theater fire with shocking subheads entitled “Burned Alive,” Hundreds of Charred and Distorted Corpses,” and horrifying details about both patrons’ struggles to escape The article proved to be a fake – but it was much more than a hoax printed by the newspaper in hopes of raising awareness about poor fire safety measures in public places The article’s rhetoric matches the bombastic vernacular surrounding such extremely frequent as well as directly engages with the increased concern about the promotion and implementation of fire safety policies and technologies from quotidian events gone awry to large-scale horrors were represented in the news with exaggerated The overblown and graphic headings and subheadings of many such articles do much more than rhetorically inflate the tragedies at hand to capture the attention of readers (although they certainly do this); the goal of some news outlets was to scare its readers through the inclusion of horrifying and memorable details and representing the disaster that can result from poorly constructed structures “shouting fire in a crowded theater,” as his words have come to be phrased idiomatically refers to the moment that panic overtakes the crowd A cry like this dissolves the boundaries and the authority of the theater space leaving the people subject to their own whims Holmes notes that the governing principles of the theater are abandoned as soon as someone( anyone) announces a disaster loudly enough just as the promulgation of anti-draft materials by an invested interloper might destabilize domestic war preparation plans by displacing the rules in favor of the clashing feelings of an un-unified or disinterested mass at a fundraising gala on the North Shore of Long Island to which my parents had managed to snag tickets for our family of four The event was being hosted by a local historic institution celebrating a mammoth anniversary with a benefit to raise money for the next chapter of its existence To make the commemoration even more special celebrities from classic television shows were promised to be there they were definitely of the variety that attended events organized around the popular culture of bygone eras (which is the short version of the story about how my eight-year-old sister wound up singing a duet with Keely Smith to “The Saints Come Marchin’ In” at the Regency Hotel if there was even the slightest chance that we could run into Larry Hagman or Stefanie Powers at this thing and we were nearly incandescent with excitement and after a day of ironing and spraying my hair down to a fraction of its normal mass we drove through torrents along the coastal roads to make it my family and I emerged from the pelting rain and the viscid humidity to the Gold Coast mansion that was serving as the party grounds We made our way to the tent where the dinner and dancing dressed up and traveling together throughout the space in an enthusiastic clump wound in our bloc amid the circular tables and tent poles He was the first celebrity I saw that night and stood so straight that he was perpendicular to the modular dance floor tile—a ramrod in a tuxedo with glinting wire glasses finishing up a conversation with an eager stranger after gasping and tapping my sister and me on the shoulders that we all go over and introduce ourselves if we knew him better from his roles on Family Guy I don’t recall him mentioning Batman—either the comic live-action 1966 film or subsequent zany television series in which he played the eponymous hero—and if this is the case perhaps it is because he assumed we were too young to have seen them And we were: I was sixteen and my sister was thirteen (although she looked about nine) And while we did sometimes watch Batman reruns via my grandparents’ satellite dish I honestly think we knew him better from his guest-starring role on an episode of Kim Possible in which he played an elderly man who moonlighted as a masked crimefighter known as “The Fearless Ferret.” And as we began to rattle off our familiarity with his television oeuvre West if it’s all right with him if you can do your impression of him!” been cultivating a very solid impression of Adam West (made doubly impressive by the fact that she was an extremely tiny preteen girl) he was right in assuming it would be an amazing experience for us all if she busted it out Although she had been working on this impression assiduously (for no clear reason) could tell from the flicker of mortification that blinked over her face that she had no desire to make this talent known at this particular time I think she genuinely appreciated his excitement about her talent—but then perhaps valued it slightly less when my dad She repeated a line that she had heard Adam West say on The Fairly Odd Parents Upon reading that Adam West passed away a few days ago at the age of eighty-eight I thought of this interaction—not only because it is a charming family memory in which West demonstrated both his kindness to fans and general good-humor about his entire career now an adult (and still able to do that impression) he could have asked her if she was familiar with his additional work on such shows as 30 Rock much like the titles he listed to us in 2008 or a character obviously informed by his most famous part all inspired by or in light of one big one and wanted to meet West because they had enjoyed seeing him on television as suggested by his omission of Batman from the list of shows he surmised my sister and I might have seen him in West may have figured that he would be less able to reach my generation as “Batman,” than as the recurring role of “the man who once played Batman.” And this is actually twofold—he is known to a new crowd as the man who played Batman,” just as he is known to new audiences interested in the character as one of the first Batman actors in a long line of Batman actors As his most famous role continues to be played by others he reproduces his own connection to acting in that role by continuing to play the actor who played that role was rather unique to the canon that bears its name for its combination of action and hokeyness And West’s career since has only magnified this relationship: in an era of brooding Adam West’s perpetuation of his own role extends the camp of his creation as the cinematic Batman’s sense of humor decayed (off-and-on: the grim Tim Burton adaptation eventually yielded Batman & Robin with his impeccable comic timing and buoyant penchant for reflexivity bringing back the legacy of his Batman: reminding us in other about the necessity of taking nothing—even superheroes that my sister reproduced Adam West to his face—imitated a man who has never stopped imitating himself He looked at my little sister for a long time after her brief impression ended in a self-conscious blush who I think may have been chuckling at the whole thing the humidity had teased up my once-styled hair into a bubble helmet around my head man of one mask but a thousand (sometimes animated) versions of the same face And then my dad complimented my sister on her impression—for her precision in diction good sport and doing it in the first place seems to have been another way to imitate Adam West Subscribe to Our Magazine Click Here to Buy Issues From Our eBay Store "Dollars" Trilogy Special80-Page Tribute Issue- Now shipping - Home About Cinema RetroThe TeamBack IssuesContact UsLinks Correspondence - let us know what you think of Cinema Retro Cinema Retro on Facebook Cinema Retro I typically like to measure the year in how many things I watched here’s a list of the best crimey TV shows you may or may not have missed There were many great TV shows in other genres too There were a great many new seasons of existing TV shows the groovy new adaptation of Carol Hiaasen’s classic Florida PI story a down-and-out former detective living in Key West who becomes embroiled in a mystery after a severed arm is found on a fishing trip It’s bright and bubbly enough as much as you’d want for a neo-noir A good alternative for those not headed to the Keys for the winter holidays We didn’t really need another adaptation of The Talented Mr I might even say that he’s the best actor working today Scott has managed to evacuate almost all humanity and feeling from his body; he embodies the sharp contrast of a body which appears to be human but lacks a human’s soul This mode of characterization makes for a compelling antihero but also feels rather like an intervention in the Ripley canon Ripley is nothing if not emotional; it stars Matt Damon as a young giddy and thoroughly disturbed interloper who falls in love with a beautiful man and a beautiful lifestyle and then does whatever he can to preserve whatever he can have of it how the pursuit of community only results in greater loneliness and not as well as the one Andrew Scott offers to us which is an awkward but conniving lizard-man about a retired professor (Ted Dansen) who goes undercover at a retirement community on behalf of a private detective is a heartrending and moving show about aging and rediscovering passion and a lust for life Slow Horses has consistently been one of the best TV shows in recent memory anti-Fleming espionage series with propulsive plotting and memorable performances Jodie Foster and Kali Reis star in this much-anticipated installment of True Detective. I didn’t watch it because it seemed a bit too scary, but in his glowing review on our site Nick Kolakowski says “Does the new season succeed the showrunner who wrote or co-wrote all the latest episodes wisely takes much of what made the show’s first three seasons work so well while tweaking other elements so it becomes her own beast.” The Penguin! This isn’t your momma’s Penguin. This isn’t fun, Batman fare. This Penguin, played by Colin Farrell and 100 lbs of prosthetics, is no Oswald Cobblepot. He is “Oz,” a tough Gotham gangster. And in fact, this is a gritty crime drama about gangsters that our reviewer Hector Dejean likens to a modernized “The show provides an engrossing panorama of criminals tossing aside moral codes in favor of survival and it gives viewers some jaw-dropping performances from extremely talented actors.” Teaching & Learning By Ethan Brightbill | March 08 associate dean for academic programs in USU's College of Veterinary Medicine is applying her approach to teaching to shaping the college's curriculum Associate Professor Heloisa Rutigliano recently received a regional United States Department of Agriculture Excellence in Teaching Award And as chair of the curriculum committee in Utah State University’s College of Veterinary Medicine and its newly appointed associate dean of academic programs she’s in a position to put her teaching skills to good use Rutigliano strives to create a collaborative classroom environment and she uses active learning experiences grounded in real life examples to help students develop skills including problem solving she also takes inspiration from the guiding principle of her research: the scientific method By posing questions about her own teaching making predictions about the answers to those questions Rutigliano extends the rigor of her research to the classroom “I identify something in my course that needs to be improved or changed,” Rutigliano said “and I search the literature to see what is already known about the topic and I collect and interpret the results of that approach to see if it was effective or not I try to communicate those results to my colleagues at conferences through publications or presentations And then I further improve and tweak the new methodology that I used.” The principles are the same across teaching and research the bovine placentas and uteruses she might view for research Rutigliano examines assessments and data on student learning “I firmly believe that you can become a more effective instructor if you use a systematic approach,” Rutigliano said As chair of the college’s curriculum committee and associate dean Rutigliano now has the opportunity to take that philosophy and apply it to an entire veterinary medicine college The new curriculum is centered on the competencies veterinarians need to succeed and the committee isn’t relying on only its own experience to create it Rutigliano and other committee members have studied licensing exam documents and accreditation requirements to ensure students have all the skills expected from today’s veterinarians They’ve also reached out to active practitioners in the field for their feedback which is particularly important since students will be completing their fourth-year rotations through partnerships with clinics across the Intermountain West Rutigliano’s approach means first identifying the competencies the college intends to teach and then working backward from there to devise ways to make that happen “Let’s say our goal is to address a specific disease in dogs,” Rutigliano said we’ll figure out how to design a third-year clinical course that covers how to treat Then we’ll look ahead of that and design a second-year course that teaches students the pathology behind that disease so that they understand how it works we’ll look at the first year and make sure students understand how the systems affected by that disease work when they’re healthy so that students have context throughout their education.” Designing the new curriculum has also come with challenges While Rutigliano previously participated in the curriculum review committee at Washington State University the task of creating a wholly new curriculum is still new to her and the rest of the committee and there aren’t many publications on the subject like I was completely unprepared,” Rutigliano said it turned out that our committee is full of highly motivated people who really have a vision to improve the curriculum and prepare future veterinarians and we haven’t always known what direction to take we developed some trust in our capacity to overcome those obstacles and do something novel And now we’re coming up with something that’s pretty exciting.” While Rutigliano didn’t always know that she wanted to be an educator both teaching and animal care run in her family as her mother is a Portuguese teacher and her father is an agronomist and a farmer She knew from a young age that she wanted to be a veterinarian “I was always intrigued by how the body of an animal works and what makes them sick,” Rutigliano said After earning her doctor of veterinary medicine at Sao Paulo State University Rutigliano completed a master of science and a Ph.D in animal biology at the University of California Davis It was as she was earning her master’s that she became a teaching assistant and discovered her love of education She began postdoctoral research at Utah State in 2010 before becoming a faculty member she received USU’s top teaching honor Comments and questions regarding this article may be directed to the contact person listed on this page The Emma Eccles Jones College of Education and Human Services is celebrating eight valedictorians 1 in 5 students receiving an undergraduate degree or certificate from USU this year are the first in their family to ever earn a degree UNIVERSITY AFFAIRS SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY HEALTH & WELLNESS and his friends Percy and Mary Shelley passed the time by telling ghost stories The stories they created would lay the groundwork for future Perhaps most notable among these contributions was Mary Shelley’s which she would turn into her opus Frankenstein; or the Modern Prometheus and publish approximately two years later This tale—of the assemblage of several of the Romantic movement’s most significant writers all brainstorming hallmark contributions against the dreary sublime backdrop of a stormy summer night—is specifically referenced in the preface to Frankenstein which was written as Mary Shelley by her husband “Two other friends,” Percy Shelley wrote of this night after setting the scene: “(a tale from the pen of one of whom would be far more acceptable to the public than any thing I can ever hope to produce) and myself agreed to write each a story founded on some supernatural occurrence.” The two friends MacDonald and Kathleen Scherf’s footnote in the Broadview critical edition of the novel are certainly Percy Shelley and Lord Byron and Byron’s idea was a spooky and inventive story about a vampire that night—one who is left out of Shelley’s recapitulation who contributed a concept that would later become his novel Ernest’s Berchtold; or the Modern Oedipus But this novel not his most notable literary achievement however—Polidori wound up expanding Byron’s vampire concept (several paragraphs of which Byron had actually written) churning out his own different short work on the same topic Polidori left Cologny in September of that year and left his manuscript with his friend Countess Catherine Bruce a London publisher named Henry Colburn received a manuscript in the mail containing “outlines” of several stories—the gothic exercises developed and written by Byron’s houseguests in Cologny who comprehensively researched the publication history of Polidori’s text claims that it is unknown how this material precisely arrived in Colburn’s possession The outline for Frankenstein was in this bundle in his periodical called New Monthly Magazine He arranged for publication of the story as a book but it was almost too late—the story (in the magazine) was a triumphant success and at least one literary edition was on its way Polidori began writing letters to the necessary parties to properly claim authorship the edition which was already in the works from Sherwood and Jones was published without Byron’s name—but without Polidori’s also This is the edition of the text of Polidori’s The Vampyre that I first encountered in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Columbia University But Byron’s nebulous attachment to The Vampyre lived on This anonymous edition of The Vampyre teased possible authorship by Byron (and if not definitely affiliation with Byron) through its paratextual matter—namely an “Extract of a Letter to the Editor” in the front which rehashes the gothic origin story told by Percy Shelley in the Preface to his wife’s book and offers an explanation as to how this bundle of stories from this fateful night in Geneva came to be published; the unnamed “editor” simply says and herewith forward them to you.” And the edition also features a piece by Bryon himself Containing an Account of Lord Byron’s Residence in the Island of Mitylene” in the back Assuming the text had been written by Byron and publishing it with paratexts that augment this is one matter—but deliberately concealing the true author while loading Byron into the frontmatter and backmatter is another treat Byron’s name as a brand—as a desirable label accounting for quality The text comes to rely exclusively on these paratexts in light of the publication of Frankenstein The end of “Extract of a Letter to the Editor,” lists the names of the Romanticists who brainstormed ghost stories; upon listing that Mary Shelley (as “Miss M.W Godwin”—her name at the time) contributed a tale this edition drops a footnote stating “since published under the title of Frankenstein: or the Modern Prometheus.” The Vampyre is in extra-good company But this footnote also suggests another brand which further links thematically the paratexts in The Vampyre and Frankenstein—with a brand of teamwork The texts produced that night are not most significant because they are independent products of some of the greatest writers of this significant literary movement or because they can be associated with the great literary celebrity Byron but because they were developed alongside one another—in accordance with the ideals of the Romantic movement The Vampyre tells the story of a young man named Aubrey—wistful and ever-appreciative of the beauty he sees around him—who befriends the rakish and enigmatic Lord Ruthven who has a habit of making conquests of young women the beautiful (and knowledgeable about otherworldly creatures) Ianthe does he begin to wonder if his friend is a monster—and he has this confirmed when Lord Ruthven is murdered by brigands but nonetheless reemerges in Aubrey’s life a year later with a new name and the intent to marry Aubrey’s sister Containing an Account of Lord Byron’s Residence in the Island of Mitylene,” in addition to name-dropping “Byron” again seems to play upon The Vampyre’s Greek setting—continuing the eerie romance of the Eastern Mediterranean world even after Polidori’s story has ended Many of The Vampyre’s characteristics suggest a deliberate attempt to recall another notable brand—that of Gothic/romanticism The “Introduction” to Polidori’s text is a historical survey of vampirism citing several “historical” accounts of the subject as well as Romantic literary acknowledgements—such as Byron’s poem “The Giaour” (a huge except of which is reprinted in this section) and Robert Southey’s poem “Thalaba.” The historical evidence helps ground the story of The Vampyre in spooky possibility while the Romantic connections associate the story further with the conventions and ideologies of the genre Read more about the publication history of The Vampyre here. 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While not every coach found success in Cleveland — even the great Bill Belichick was 36-44 with the Browns — several have produced great runs The Cleveland Browns have been around since 1946 and have had some of the best players and coaches in league history represent them Kevin Stefanski finds himself amid a solid stretch winning 11 games in two of his first four seasons While he’s been the Browns' top coach since they returned to the league in 1999 he doesn’t top the list in terms of all-time great coaches Let’s see where Stefanski falls and who stands atop the mountain as we identify the five greatest head coaches in Cleveland Browns history Years with the Browns: 1978-84Regular Season Record 47-50Playoff Record: 0-2 Hired in 1978 following stints as an assistant with the New York Jets Sam Rutigliano helped turn the Browns around They were 8-8 during his first season with the club and then reeled off a 9-7 record in 1979 Rutigliano still took home the NFL Head Coach of the Year Award for his work but they never recaptured the magic from that season despite making it back to the playoffs in 1982 The Browns were just 4-5 during the strike-shortened season and were again one-and-done in the postseason A 1-7 start in 1984 proved Rutigliano’s undoing He not only fell under .500 as a head coach but was also fired halfway through the season he remains one of the top coaches in franchise history Years with the Browns: 2020-PresentRegular Season Record 37-30Playoff Record: 0-2 Browns fans don’t understand what they have in Kevin Stefanski they’ve cycled through 12 different coaches who finally brings credibility to a franchise that's been starving for continuity through the past three decades Stefanski led the Browns to an 11-5 record he helped devise a game plan to secure the first playoff win since the early 1990s They held their own against the Kansas City Chiefs in the Divisional Round as well but fell just short The Browns suffered through two losing seasons after that but remained highly competitive They were a far cry from the franchise that had just gone 1-31 a couple of years before his arrival Stefanski pulled off another 11-win campaign in 2023 to snap the losing streak, taking his second Head Coach of the Year Award in four seasons keeping the team focused despite starting five different quarterbacks and watching many other stars suffer injuries The Browns go into the 2024 season with a deep roster and one of the more respected coaching staffs in the NFL Stefanski boasts a record of 37-30 and could be the one to finally put them over the hump maybe he will then get recognized for the stability he's brought to the table Years with Browns: 1984-88Regular Season Record 44-27Playoff Record: 2-4 Marty Schottenheimer was the defensive coordinator under Sam Rutigliano from 1980 through 1984 He took over as the interim head coach in 1984 when Rutligiano was fired and finished the season 4-4 That was enough for the franchise to trust him with the job going forward Schottenheimer went 8-8 in his first full campaign as the head coach but won the division and made the playoffs but Schottenheimer led them to a 12-4 mark in 1986 That was the first of three consecutive seasons with double-digit wins and the first of two straight trips to the AFC Championship Game Schottenheimer had some great moments as he and Bernie Kosar kept the team relevant throughout his tenure he was unable to pull off the impossible — taking Cleveland to the Super Bowl Following a playoff loss to the Houston Oilers, team owner Art Modell announced Schottenheimer and the team would be parting ways — just another reason Modell is the most hated man in Cleveland sports Schottenheimer coached in the league for 21 years including a 10-year run with the Kansas City Chiefs He was one of the more beloved figures in the NFL but couldn’t ever win the big one something that followed him throughout his career Years with the Browns: 1963-70Regular Season Record 76-34-2Playoff Record: 3-4Notable Stat: NFL Championship 1964 Blanton Collier was the right-hand man for Paul Brown The assistant head coach was beloved by players which helped ease the tension the often-gruff Brown could create Collier ended up leaving in 1954 to take the head coaching position at Kentucky and had a record of 41–36–3 in eight years He was let go as the Wildcats hired an assistant under Bear Bryant which opened the door for a return to Cleveland Collier was brought back as an offensive assistant in 1962 and said he was happy to be home and the two continued to work well together When Collier installed an audible system for the offense leading to the belief that Brown wanted all the good press to be centered around him Already at odds with star running back Jim Brown this proved to be enough motivation for Art Modell to fire Brown and replace him with Collier The Kentucky native had instant success with at least 10 wins in each of his first three seasons and five of eight campaigns they were 10-3-1 and upset the Baltimore Colts to win the NFL Championship leading to his retirement following the 1970 campaign finishing second in franchise history for wins behind only Paul Brown Years with the Browns: 1946-62Regular Season Record 158-48-8Playoff Record: 9-5Notable Stat: AAFC Championship (1946-49) The short-lived AAFC was dominated by the Cleveland Browns who were led by the head coach they were named after: Paul Brown Brown was 47-4 during those first four seasons The league ended up disbanding ahead of the 1950 campaign It was expected to be humbled by the big league Cleveland went 10-2 and announced its arrival with a 35-10 beatdown of the defending champion Philadelphia Eagles The Browns later won the NFL Championship on a last-second field goal from Lou Groza shocking the Los Angeles Rams in the process His titles in the NFL and AAFC were impressive but he also won a National Championship with the Ohio State Buckeyes Brown was the leader of the franchise and worked with star players such as Otto Graham He led it to two more titles in 1954 and 1955 and The infamous Cleveland owner had been involved in a rift with Brown for some time and finally pulled the trigger replacing him with the more popular Blanton Collier Brown responded by starting the Cincinnati Bengals franchise and coached it from 1968 through 1975 He might have given the Browns one of their top rivals but still remains the greatest head coach to ever grace their sidelines © 2025 Minute Media - All Rights Reserved The content on this site is for entertainment and educational purposes only Betting and gambling content is intended for individuals 21+ and is based on individual commentators' opinions and not that of Minute Media or its affiliates and related brands All picks and predictions are suggestions only and not a guarantee of success or profit If you or someone you know has a gambling problem crisis counseling and referral services can be accessed by calling 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1968 through 1975 Who stands atop the mountain as the best head coach in Cleveland Browns history You are using an outdated browser. Please upgrade your browser to improve your experience Skip to Content Map and Directions Buy Tickets Login Donate Donate to the Spring Appeal Buy a Membership Renew a Membership Buy a Gift Membership Buy Gift Cards Buy DVDs and other merchandise Other ways to support Film Forum Our email newsletter comes to your inbox every week with Film Forum's upcoming films and events Olivia Rutigliano is an Editor at Lit Hub and its vertical CrimeReads She was a Contributing Editor at the film magazine Bright Wall/Dark Room a specialist in the history of mass entertainment from the late 19th through the 20th centuries has a PhD from the departments of English/Comparative Literature and Theatre at Columbia University Literary Hub is your daily destination for the best of the literary internet. Subscribe to Lit Hub's What to Watch newsletter Now Playing Email Us Map & Directions Site Credits Privacy Policy Film Forum acknowledges the Lenape peoples This acknowledgement reflects our commitment to shedding light on the ongoing legacies of settler colonialism and forced migration Film Forum is committed to accessibility. If you are using assistive technologies like a screen reader or magnifier and are experiencing difficulties accessing this website, please let us know by emailing filmforum@filmforum.org The Lavender Hill Mob, which was made in 1951, is a film of endless charm and joy. It is a caper, which is (in my opinion) the best genre an English production company that was formally established in 1929 though on a site that had been home to different filmmaking companies since 1902 the studio was known for making both comedy films and war documentaries it discovered a kind of narrative and stylistic niche that would lead to the creation of its masterpieces and cemented it as a cornerstone of British cinema The film that was made in 1947 was a comic vaguely crimey adventure called Hue and Cry a story about kids who find themselves on a great adventure in bombed-out postwar London especially three that came out in 1949—Alexander Mackendrick’s Whiskey Galore! and Robert Hamer’s Kind Hears and Coronets—helped shape the tone of this niche Ealing Studios chiefly produced films that were invested in exploring Britishness; rather exploring facets of British identity through exaggerations of associated themes The Lavender Hill Mob is about that last thing one of Ealing’s best and most prolific writers (who won the Academy Award for his screenplay) neighbors in the small Battersea London neighborhood of Lavender Hill and friends by giving into their desires and pursuing a life of crime Our hero is a mild-mannered bank transfer agent played by Alec Guinness (known best by younger generations for playing Obi Wan in the original Star Wars) and a frustrated artist played by Stanley Holloway (best known as playing Alfred Dolittle in My Fair Lady) who team up to commit an extraordinary heist Guinness (who would star in several Ealing films—the aforementioned Kind Hearts and Coronets and The Ladykillers from 1955) is our antihero Henry Holland He has dutifully worked for the bank for two decades facilitating the transfer of gold bullion from foundry to vault who dreams of being a sculptor but has to settle for carving stone in his off-hours; his day job is making lead souvenir statues But it’s not long before Holland realizes that if one wanted to smuggle stolen gold out of the country all they’d have to do is melt and smelt it into figurines and ship them abroad he’ll never ever make enough money to live a good life Pendlebury knows he’ll never make it as an artist the realization of an easy smuggling opportunity gives them both a new raison d’être so they pretend to be tough-guys and enlist the help of two criminals (Alfie Bass and Sidney James) a reprieve from the repressive grind of their lives Williams calls their desire “freedom from British stagnation and creative frustration.” He cites an example a scene in which Holloway’s character does a mock interpretation of Richard the Third while making a bust “Of all words of tongue and pen… The saddest are these… It might have been me… “Slave I have set up my life as a cast.” This exemplifies how his anxieties about a lost and ignominious future are tired up in a visage of Britishness that a symbol of their long-elusive freedom winds up manifesting as the opposite of being British after they manage to rob the gold from the bank (which is no simple feat they’ll melt it into miniature Eiffel Tower figurines and load them on a boat to France a rip-roaring sightseeing opportunity up and down France (horizontally as well as vertically… you’ll see what I mean) Holland and Pendlebury quickly become dear friends—thick as They laugh hysterically as they chase a mark down the Eiffel Tower staircase with Pendlebury choosing the nickname “Al” and Holland choosing “Dutch.” The surprise of this moniker suggests that perhaps Holland has had more dreams alter-egos inside him than his staid career path might suggest The Lavender Hill Mob is about finding an alternative to one’s own life and living that instead It is also a love story; of loving oneself There are many magical tidbits sprinkled through, including a tiny appearance by a young, pre-fame Audrey Hepburn the cinematography was done by Douglas Slocumbe who was the director of photography on all three original Indiana Jones films But there is great magic not just in these little funny details The Lavender Hill Mob is in a way about finding the underside of magic in everything—work and upcoming events right to your inbox with our daily newsletter After 25 years behind the butcher block at Southold’s Wayside Market maybe not completely — he’s way too proud of his butcher daughter Isabella Rutigliano (and has the craft of butchering way too ingrained in his DNA) when the old-school prime butcher shop and specialty grocery store re-opens today 32 — who’s been quietly working alongside her father full-time for several years — will be stepping up as head butcher and proprietor of the beloved local meatery “You can’t fake quality – if you want to be a chop shop [then] you don’t care about what you’re feeding people people love the theater,” she says of cutting meat to order for their customers in front of their eyes We’re going to keep a lot of the old but also improve and bring on some of the new from the famously giant sandwiches to the prime-meat but Isabella — the only female prime butcher on eastern Long Island — will be adding sought-after craft items such as more local specialty duck offerings specialty sausages and some fun spirit-and-herb infusions that the young Rutigliano has been busily perfecting and honing behind the scenes.  Another new facet to the business will be the boutique service of offering whole-animal butchering for families getting in on the trend of purchasing an entire animal for its meat but who need a professional to break it down “We’re seeing more people buying in bulk — multiple families splitting an animal and being fed for the whole year with it,” says Isabella It’s a come-full-circle moment for them Whole-animal butchering was a practice that P.T.’s own father did in his butcher shop in Center Moriches before he and his son pivoted to become a wholesale meat supply and delivery service for a multitude of once-thriving butcher shops from Brooklyn all the way to Shelter Island “It’s hard work – my grandfather literally broke down animals and whole forequarters all day long like a machine and well into his late 70s,” says Isabella it’s work that’s more of a calling than just a job within the walls of 55575 Main Road.  The building itself dates back to 1815 and has operated under a multitude of purposes a gas station and an ice cream and candy store at different points in its history it’s remained Wayside Market since its first owner opened the doors as a grocery and butcher shop butcher Kenneth Ramsauer who Adamson knew from his Bohack days — the supermarket chain that once dotted Long Island — became a partner seized an opportunity to become a partner with the Ramsauers in Wayside he bought out the father-son duo and has been at the helm ever since.  With over 50 years serving the Southold community under the same name it’s not unusual to find fourth and even fifth generation loyal customers coming in for everything from a little weeknight ground chuck for meatloaf to a request for a grand Porterhouse or rack of lamb for special occasions and holidays I’m a real butcher meaning I learned from my father “That makes me very unique because I’ve done everything from soup to nuts You can’t find anyone today who can say that.”  his chip off the old butcher block daughter the idea that she’d one day enter the family business isn’t so far-fetched although it did take a while and a global pandemic to set her securely on her current path and she grew up toggling between their two homes learning the art of cooking from her mother during the school year and then working alongside her butcher dad in the summers.  my dad didn’t really push me to go into the business; he wanted it to be an organic choice and he just did his best to keep objective,” she says When the COVID-19 pandemic hit and her father needed help she knew something was shifting inside her I was bored behind a computer and behind a desk I’ve always been a listen-to-my-gut person,” she says.  her days are filled with learning the particulars of meat buying and purchasing including stints going to the wholesale meat markets with her dad It’s like full-blown ‘Rocky,’ fast-paced and super early in the morning It’s the floor of Wall Street for meat!” she laughs.  and the notion that her own son might potentially want to be the fourth generation of Rutiglianos who own the business is a family legacy that she could have only dreamed of a few years back “Legacy is everything to us,” she says “and it’s an honor I get to raise my son in a business and in such a loving and precious community that’s family oriented.”  it’s a much-deserved moment to take a step back to give his body a break from the back-breaking work of butchering but he plans to stick to holidays and a smattering of days in the busy summer months But it’s also a time to admire the work of his offspring.  and I should tell her more – she needs to hear that from her father,” P.T “She’s doing a great job and boosting the business like crazy and has so many ideas.”  “The legacy that my dad is entrusting me with is my biggest honor it makes me emotional really because this is his life’s creation; this store is an extension of our family and our family’s legacy,” Isabella says “Most don’t know that he’s a pilot; he loves planes So I use an analogy with him all of the time: You took the plane off of the ground What’s a neighborhood without a decent delicatessen Terms of Use | Privacy Policy | Accessibility Site made in collaboration with CMYK and he wants to put himself inside everything he enjoys I also find it fascinating how his entire oeuvre can be read through the lens of this (innocently) self-centered enthusiasm merely someone who wants to be recognized as genius and cute and delightful (all of which he is) so he gives himself numerous opportunities to be thought of in these ways a period film set in 1969 during the Troubles in Northern Ireland—and although he does not appear in the film was born in Belfast in 1960 in a working-class family the tale of a precocious nine-year-old who tries to understand his family’s place in the changing social world around them it feels rather like an origin story: a peek into the circumstances that made him into the man we all know Is it any surprise that the young Branagh character a freckled little boy called Buddy (the wonderful Jude Hill) is a winsome wunderkind who does well in school and gets into a little bit of trouble here and there Belfast feels a bit like when someone you know wants to show you their own very cute baby pictures But this isn’t a problem—there is much to appreciate in this story of Branagh’s life Although the film’s heart clearly beats for the Northern Irish citizens whose lives were upended (or simply ended) as a result of the upheaval Belfast is not a film about the political situation at large: it’s a sentimental Most adult characters in the film don’t even have formal names; they’re just known as “Ma” and “Pa” and “Granny” and “Pop.” Some of their circumstances and choices are mysterious and their own histories and dreams can only be inferred The adults are seen the way a child would see them remembered the way an adult would remember them The film mostly focuses on the effects of the conflict on Buddy’s family and his friends and neighbors interwoven with anecdotes of everyday life—and even extraordinary moments—that persisted despite it all Scenes barely take place anywhere but Buddy’s own street but that street feels like the center of the entire conflict that Belfast was an ecosystem made up of these droll dogged little units: it was a city of people with connections to one another The film’s goal is to provide an interior perspective into what the Troubles felt like for those who lived through them seeming to play out (for those on the inside) as a rupturing of these mini universes of local bliss more than as a national crisis as well as listened to Branagh’s stories about his family to create realistic fashions of the time and place (both Branagh’s mother and grandmother were knitters and Belfast has its fair share of delicately handmade clothes) But the whole aesthetic of the film feels surprisingly bygone—everything in Belfast seems “hand-me-down,” including its grayscale palette an unexpected choice for representing the conversely psychedelic world of 1969 The kids racing around the city in their thick knee-socks and black lace-up shoes look as though they’ve scurried over from the late 40s or early 50s: a fascinating visual insistence of temporal distance for a film detailing a national conflict which would extend well into the 1990s Belfast is not a film about the Troubles—it’s a film about Branagh’s own childhood and its production and costume design gives it the feeling of having happened long ago is a joiner who travels to London for work because there are few opportunities in Belfast He misses his wife (Caitríona Balfe) and his two boys as well as his jovial parents (Judi Dench and Ciarán Hinds) Buddy’s father wants to move the family out of the city during the political upheaval so they can finally all be safe not wanting to lose the sense of community that has been so essential to their lives We learn that Buddy’s parents have lived in the city since they were born Several magical scenes reveal Buddy’s father to have prodigious athletic skills and a beautiful singing voice while Buddy’s beautiful mother is revealed to be a wonderful dancer but the audience should be: what might have become of his parents if they had left Belfast when they were young Buddy’s parents equally represent the unknowable practical world of finances and caretaking But Buddy’s grandparents are a more fanciful pair—they reminisce often about how they met when they were young and Buddy’s grandfather teaches him things like how to fudge a better score on an exam Buddy’s parents think about the future while his grandparents think about the past reflecting on it with such nostalgic sweetness that in their minds’-eyes a graduate of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art who cut his teeth at the Royal Shakespeare Company is one of modern entertainment’s most intriguing personalities which mainly features adaptations of Shakespeare and other classic works of literature seems partly a demonstration of phenomenal excitement about the humanities as much as it has also been an assertion of his taking up the mantle of Laurence Olivier He has long self-styled as the next great Shakespearean the next brilliant stage-to-film actor of the new era the foundational text that made the future dramatist is represented not as Henry V but as the comic book Thor whose Marvel film adaptation Branagh would later direct (in case you’re wondering there’s also a shot of an Agatha Christie book at one point) Belfast is more than simply a backstory: it’s a nostalgic tell-all an effort to share favorite things and family stories a perfect movie to watch early on a Sunday morning with moving performances and an abiding tenderness It’s not hard to see what Branagh is up to the whole time but it’s pointless to try to resist his charms Created by Grove Atlantic and Electric Literature Masthead About Sign Up For Our Newsletters How to Pitch Lit Hub Support Lit Hub - Become A Member Lit Hub has always brought you the best of the book world for free—no paywall you'll keep independent book coverage alive and thriving This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks The action you just performed triggered the security solution There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page.