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This week, we flash back to our time in Edinburgh for a conversation with a Carita Wallgren-Lindholm.  Carita is an experienced arbitrator and formerly of the ICC Commission.  She stopped by for a candid conversation as Scottish ArbFest wrapped up.     Opening Notes - :32 Episode Begins - 2:30 Personal Interest - 37:08 Closing Notes - 45:10   BOOKS: 1) Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera 2) A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles   MUSICS: 1) Opera 2) Country Music    Feedback and comments welcome to: TalesOfTheTribunal@Gmail.com   None of the views shared today or any episode of Tales of the Tribunal is presented as legal advice nor advice of any kind.  No compensation was provided to any person or party for their appearance on the show nor do any of the statements made represent any particular organization, legal position or view point.  All interviewees appear on an arms-length basis and their appearance should not be construed as any bias or preferred affiliation with the host or host's employer.  All rights reserved.

In this episode, join us for an insightful exploration into the ever-evolving landscape of education technology and innovation. Gautam Tambay, the CEO and founder of Springboard, provides a comprehensive look at the dynamic bootcamp industry. He shares valuable insights into Springboard's innovative three-pronged approach, catering to individual learners, businesses, and academic institutions, highlighting the success and impact of this multifaceted model.Additionally, our conversation with Kyle Wallgren, CEO of Edsoma, sheds light on the remarkable journey of an entrepreneur making significant waves in the edtech sphere. Having recently drawn attention during New York Edtech Week, Kyle's innovative approach, particularly in the domain of early reading, has been noteworthy. The episode delves into Kyle's transition from a non-edtech background to impactful work within the industry and explores the exciting endeavors facilitated by the backing of a high-profile investor, Shaquille O'Neal.Join us for a captivating discussion featuring industry visionaries, sharing their insights, experiences, and the future of education technology. Get inspired by the innovative trajectories and forward-thinking strategies embraced by these influential figures in the world of edtech. Subscribe now!

In Episode 19  of The Extreme Drummers Podcast I speak to Jocke Wallgren.Jocke is a Swedish drummer and is best known for his work with Amon Amarth.If you want to find out more about Jocke, please check out the following:Youtube.com/jockewallgrenInstagram: @jocke_wallgrenFacebook: @jocke.wallgrenTwitch: Twitch.tv/jockewallgrenIf you want to support the podcast, please head over to the website below to purchase merch or the Patreon where not only will you help keep it weekly, but also receive some very cool perks.www.extremedrummerspodcast.comwww.patreon.com/extremedrummerspodcastOr for updates follow on social media:Instagram: @extremedrummerspodcast / @danwildingdrumFacebook: /danwildingdrumYoutube.com/extremedrummerspodcastThanks for listening and see you next time!

On this episode, we are continuing our miniseries on the movies released by Miramax Films in the 1980s, specifically looking at the films they released between 1984 and 1986. ----more---- TRANSCRIPT   From Los Angeles, California. The Entertainment Capital of the World. It's the 80s Movie Podcast. I am your host, Edward Havens. Thank you for listening today.   On this episode, we are continuing our miniseries on the movies released by Miramax Films in the 1980s.   And, in case you did not listen to Part 1 yet, let me reiterate that the focus here will be on the films and the creatives, not the Weinsteins. The Weinsteins did not have a hand in the production of any of the movies Miramax released in the 1980s, and that Miramax logo and the names associated with it should not stop anyone from enjoying some very well made movies because they now have an unfortunate association with two spineless chucklenuts who proclivities would not be known by the outside world for decades to come.   Well, there is one movie this episode where we must talk about the Weinsteins as the creatives, but when talking about that film, “creatives” is a derisive pejorative.    We ended our previous episode at the end of 1983. Miramax had one minor hit film in The Secret Policeman's Other Ball, thanks in large part to the film's association with members of the still beloved Monty Python comedy troupe, who hadn't released any material since The Life of Brian in 1979.   1984 would be the start of year five of the company, and they were still in need of something to make their name. Being a truly independent film company in 1984 was not easy. There were fewer than 20,000 movie screens in the entire country back then, compared to nearly 40,000 today. National video store chains like Blockbuster did not exist, and the few cable channels that did exist played mostly Hollywood films. There was no social media for images and clips to go viral.   For comparison's sake, in A24's first five years, from its founding in August 2012 to July 2017, the company would have a number of hit films, including The Bling Ring, The Lobster, Spring Breakers, and The Witch, release movies from some of indie cinema's most respected names, including Andrea Arnold, Robert Eggers, Atom Egoyan, Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, Lynn Shelton, Trey Edward Shults, Gus Van Sant, and Denis Villeneuve, and released several Academy Award winning movies, including the Amy Winehouse documentary Amy, Alex Garland's Ex Machina, Lenny Abrahamson's Room and Barry Jenkins' Moonlight, which would upset front runner La La Land for the Best Picture of 2016.   But instead of leaning into the American independent cinema world the way Cinecom and Island were doing with the likes of Jonathan Demme and John Sayles, Miramax would dip their toes further into the world of international cinema.   Their first release for 1984 would be Ruy Guerra's Eréndira. The screenplay by Nobel Prize winner Gabriel García Márquez was based on his 1972 novella The Incredible and Sad Tale of Innocent Eréndira and Her Heartless Grandmother, which itself was based off a screenplay Márquez had written in the early 1960s, which, when he couldn't get it made at the time, he reduced down to a page and a half for a sequence in his 1967 magnum opus One Hundred Years of Solitude. Between the early 1960s and the early 1980s, Márquez would lose the original draft of Eréndira, and would write a new script based off what he remembered writing twenty years earlier.    In the story, a young woman named Eréndira lives in a near mansion situation in an otherwise empty desert with her grandmother, who had collected a number of paper flowers and assorted tchotchkes over the years. One night, Eréndira forgets to put out some candles used to illuminate the house, and the house and all of its contents burn to the ground. With everything lost, Eréndira's grandmother forces her into a life of prostitution. The young woman quickly becomes the courtesan of choice in the region. With every new journey, an ever growing caravan starts to follow them, until it becomes for all intents and purposes a carnival, with food vendors, snake charmers, musicians and games of chance.   Márquez's writing style, known as “magic realism,” was very cinematic on the page, and it's little wonder that many of his stories have been made into movies and television miniseries around the globe for more than a half century. Yet no movie came as close to capturing that Marquezian prose quite the way Guerra did with Eréndira. Featuring Greek goddess Irene Papas as the Grandmother, Brazilian actress Cláudia Ohana, who happened to be married to Guerra at the time, as the titular character, and former Bond villain Michael Lonsdale in a small but important role as a Senator who tries to help Eréndira get out of her life as a slave, the movie would be Mexico's entry into the 1983 Academy Award race for Best Foreign Language Film.   After acquiring the film for American distribution, Miramax would score a coup by getting the film accepted to that year's New York Film Festival, alongside such films as Robert Altman's Streamers, Jean Lucy Godard's Passion, Lawrence Kasdan's The Big Chill, Francis Ford Coppola's Rumble Fish, and Andrzej Wajda's Danton.   But despite some stellar reviews from many of the New York City film critics, Eréndira would not get nominated for Best Foreign Language Film, and Miramax would wait until April 27th, 1984, to open the film at the Lincoln Plaza Cinemas, one of the most important theatres in New York City at the time to launch a foreign film. A quarter page ad in the New York Times included quotes from the Village Voice, New York Magazine, Vincent Canby of the Times and Roger Ebert, the movie would gross an impressive $25,500 in its first three days. Word of mouth in the city would be strong, with its second weekend gross actually increasing nearly 20% to $30,500. Its third weekend would fall slightly, but with $27k in the till would still be better than its first weekend.   It wouldn't be until Week 5 that Eréndira would expand into Los Angeles and Chicago, where it would continue to gross nearly $20k per screen for several more weeks. The film would continue to play across the nation for more than half a year, and despite never making more than four prints of the film, Eréndira would gross more than $600k in America, one of the best non-English language releases for all of 1984.   In their quickest turnaround from one film to another to date, Miramax would release Claude Lelouch's Edith and Marcel not five weeks after Eréndira.   If you're not familiar with the name Claude Chabrol, I would highly suggest becoming so. Chabrol was a part of the French New Wave filmmakers alongside Jean-Luc Godard, Jacques Rivette, Éric Rohmer, and François Truffaut who came up as film critics for the influential French magazine Cahiers [ka-yay] du Cinéma in the 1950s, who would go on to change the direction of French Cinema and how film fans appreciated films and filmmakers through the concept of The Auteur Theory, although the theory itself would be given a name by American film critic Andrew Sarris in 1962.   Of these five critics turned filmmakers, Chabrol would be considered the most prolific and commercial. Chabrol would be the first of them to make a film, Le Beau Serge, and between 1957 and his death in 2010, he would make 58 movies. That's more than one new movie every year on average, not counting shorts and television projects he also made on the side.   American audiences knew him best for his 1966 global hit A Man and a Woman, which would sell more than $14m in tickets in the US and would be one of the few foreign language films to earn Academy Award nominations outside of the Best Foreign Language Film race. Lead actress Anouk Aimee would get a nod, and Chabrol would earn two on the film, for Best Director, which he would lose to Fred Zimmerman and A Man for All Seasons, and Best Original Screenplay, which he would win alongside his co-writer Pierre Uytterhoeven.   Edith and Marcel would tell the story of the love affair between the iconic French singer Edith Piaf and Marcel Cerdan, the French boxer who was the Middleweight Champion of the World during their affair in 1948 and 1949. Both were famous in their own right, but together, they were the Brangelina of post-World War II France. Despite the fact that Cerdan was married with three kids, their affair helped lift the spirits of the French people, until his death in October 1949, while he was flying from Paris to New York to see Piaf.   Fans of Raging Bull are somewhat familiar with Marcel Cerdan already, as Cerdan's last fight before his death would find Cerdan losing his middleweight title to Jake LaMotta.   In a weird twist of fate, Patrick Dewaere, the actor Chabrol cast as Cerdan, committed suicide just after the start of production, and while Chabrol considered shutting down the film in respect, it would be none other than Marcel Cerdan, Jr. who would step in to the role of his own father, despite never having acted before, and being six years older than his father was when he died.   When it was released in France in April 1983, it was an immediate hit, become the second highest French film of the year, and the sixth highest grosser of all films released in the country that year. However, it would not be the film France submitted to that year's Academy Award race. That would be Diane Kurys' Entre Nous, which wasn't as big a hit in France but was considered a stronger contender for the nomination, in part because of Isabelle Hupert's amazing performance but also because Entre Nous, as 110 minutes, was 50 minutes shorter than Edith and Marcel.   Harvey Weinstein would cut twenty minutes out of the film without Chabrol's consent or assistance, and when the film was released at the 57th Street Playhouse in New York City on Sunday, June 3rd, the gushing reviews in the New York Times ad would actually be for Chabrol's original cut, and they would help the film gross $15,300 in its first five days. But once the other New York critics who didn't get to see the original cut of the film saw this new cut, the critical consensus started to fall. Things felt off to them, and they would be, as a number of short trims made by Weinstein would remove important context for the film for the sake of streamlining the film. Audiences would pick up on the changes, and in its first full weekend of release, the film would only gross $12k. After two more weeks of grosses of under $4k each week, the film would close in New York City. Edith and Marcel would never play in another theatre in the United States.   And then there would be another year plus long gap before their next release, but we'll get into the reason why in a few moments.   Many people today know Rubén Blades as Daniel Salazar in Fear the Walking Dead, or from his appearances in The Milagro Beanfield War, Once Upon a Time in Mexico, or Predator 2, amongst his 40 plus acting appearances over the years, but in the early 1980s, he was a salsa and Latin Jazz musician and singer who had yet to break out of the New Yorican market. With an idea for a movie about a singer and musician not unlike himself trying to attempt a crossover success into mainstream music, he would approach his friend, director Leon Icasho, about teaming up to get the idea fleshed out into a real movie. Although Blades was at best a cult music star, and Icasho had only made one movie before, they were able to raise $6m from a series of local investors including Jack Rollins, who produced every Woody Allen movie from 1969's Take the Money and Run to 2015's Irrational Man, to make their movie, which they would start shooting in the Spanish Harlem section of New York City in December 1982.   Despite the luxury of a large budget for an independent Latino production, the shooting schedule was very tight, less than five weeks. There would be a number of large musical segments to show Blades' character Rudy's talents as a musician and singer, with hundreds of extras on hand in each scene. Icasho would stick to his 28 day schedule, and the film would wrap up shortly after the New Year.   Even though the director would have his final cut of the movie ready by the start of summer 1983, it would take nearly a year and a half for any distributor to nibble. It wasn't that the film was tedious. Quite the opposite. Many distributors enjoyed the film, but worried about, ironically, the ability of the film to crossover out of the Latino market into the mainstream. So when Miramax came along with a lower than hoped for offer to release the film, the filmmakers took the deal, because they just wanted the film out there.   Things would start to pick up for the film when Miramax submitted the film to be entered into the 1985 Cannes Film Festival, and it would be submitted to run in the prestigious Directors Fortnight program, alongside Mike Newell's breakthrough film, Dance with a Stranger, Victor Nunez's breakthrough film, A Flash of Green, and Wayne Wang's breakthrough film Dim Sum: A Little Bit of Heart. While they were waiting for Cannes to get back to them, they would also learn the film had been selected to be a part of The Lincoln Center's New Directors/New Films program, where the film would earn raves from local critics and audiences, especially for Blades, who many felt was a screen natural. After more praise from critics and audiences on the French Riviera, Miramax would open Crossover Dreams at the Cinema Studio theatre in midtown Manhattan on August 23rd, 1985. Originally booked into the smaller 180 seat auditorium, since John Huston's Prizzi's Honor was still doing good business in the 300 seat house in its fourth week, the theatre would swap houses for the films when it became clear early on Crossover Dreams' first day that it would be the more popular title that weekend. And it would. While Prizzi would gross a still solid $10k that weekend, Crossover Dreams would gross $35k. In its second weekend, the film would again gross $35k. And in its third weekend, another $35k. They were basically selling out every seat at every show those first three weeks. Clearly, the film was indeed doing some crossover business.   But, strangely, Miramax would wait seven weeks after opening the film in New York to open it in Los Angeles. With a new ad campaign that de-emphasized Blades and played up the dreamer dreaming big aspect of the film, Miramax would open the movie at two of the more upscale theatres in the area, the Cineplex Beverly Center on the outskirts of Beverly Hills, and the Cineplex Brentwood Twin, on the west side where many of Hollywood's tastemakers called home. Even with a plethora of good reviews from the local press, and playing at two theatres with a capacity of more than double the one theatre playing the film in New York, Crossover Dreams could only manage a neat $13k opening weekend.   Slowly but surely, Miramax would add a few more prints in additional major markets, but never really gave the film the chance to score with Latino audiences who may have been craving a salsa-infused musical/drama, even if it was entirely in English. Looking back, thirty-eight years later, that seems to have been a mistake, but it seems that the film's final gross of just $250k after just ten weeks of release was leaving a lot of money on the table. At awards time, Blades would be nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for Best Actor, but otherwise, the film would be shut out of any further consideration.   But for all intents and purposes, the film did kinda complete its mission of turning Blades into a star. He continues to be one of the busiest Latino actors in Hollywood over the last forty years, and it would help get one of his co-stars, Elizabeth Peña, a major job in a major Hollywood film the following year, as the live-in maid at Richard Dreyfuss and Bette Midler's house in Paul Mazursky's Down and Out in Beverly Hills, which would give her a steady career until her passing in 2014. And Icasho himself would have a successful directing career both on movie screens and on television, working on such projects as Miami Vice, Crime Story, The Equalizer, Criminal Minds, and Queen of the South, until his passing this past May.   I'm going to briefly mention a Canadian drama called The Dog Who Stopped the War that Miramax released on three screens in their home town of Buffalo on October 25th, 1985. A children's film about two groups of children in a small town in Quebec during their winter break who get involved in an ever-escalating snowball fight. It would be the highest grossing local film in Canada in 1984, and would become the first in a series of 25 family films under a Tales For All banner made by a company called Party Productions, which will be releasing their newest film in the series later this year. The film may have huge in Canada, but in Buffalo in the late fall, the film would only gross $15k in its first, and only, week in theatres. The film would eventually develop a cult following thanks to repeated cable screenings during the holidays every year.   We'll also give a brief mention to an Australian action movie called Cool Change, directed by George Miller. No, not the George Miller who created the Mad Max series, but the other Australian director named George Miller, who had to start going by George T. Miller to differentiate himself from the other George Miller, even though this George Miller was directing before the other George Miller, and even had a bigger local and global hit in 1982 with The Man From Snowy River than the other George Miller had with Mad Max II, aka The Road Warrior. It would also be the second movie released by Miramax in a year starring a young Australian ingenue named Deborra-Lee Furness, who was also featured in Crossover Dreams. Today, most people know her as Mrs. Hugh Jackman.   The internet and several book sources say the movie opened in America on March 14th, 1986, but damn if I can find any playdate anywhere in the country, period. Not even in the Weinsteins' home territory of Buffalo. A critic from the Sydney Morning Herald would call the film, which opened in Australia four weeks after it allegedly opened in America, a spectacularly simplistic propaganda piece for the cattle farmers of the Victorian high plains,” and in its home country, it would barely gross 2% of its $3.5m budget.   And sticking with brief mentions of Australian movies Miramax allegedly released in American in the spring of 1986, we move over to one of three movies directed by Brian Trenchard-Smith that would be released during that year. In Australia, it was titled Frog Dreaming, but for America, the title was changed to The Quest. The film stars Henry Thomas from E.T. as an American boy who has moved to Australia to be with his guardian after his parents die, who finds himself caught up in the magic of a local Aboriginal myth that might be more real than anyone realizes.   And like Cool Change, I cannot find any American playdates for the film anywhere near its alleged May 1st, 1986 release date. I even contacted Mr. Trenchard-Smith asking him if he remembers anything about the American release of his film, knowing full well it's 37 years later, but while being very polite in his response, he was unable to help.       Finally, we get back to the movies we actually can talk about with some certainty. I know our next movie was actually released in American theatres, because I saw it in America at a cinema.   Twist and Shout tells the story of two best friends, Bjørn and Erik, growing up in suburbs of Copenhagen, Denmark in 1963. The music of The Beatles, who are just exploding in Europe, help provide a welcome respite from the harsh realities of their lives.   Directed by Billie August, Twist and Shout would become the first of several August films to be released by Miramax over the next decade, including his follow-up, which would end up become Miramax's first Oscar-winning release, but we'll be talking about that movie on our next episode.   August was often seen as a spiritual successor to Ingmar Bergman within Scandinavian cinema, so much so that Bergman would handpick August to direct a semi-autobiographical screenplay of his, The Best Intentions, in the early 1990s, when it became clear to Bergman that he would not be able to make it himself. Bergman's only stipulation was that August would need to cast one of his actresses from Fanny and Alexander, Pernilla Wallgren, as his stand-in character's mother. August and Wallgren had never met until they started filming. By the end of shooting, Pernilla Wallgren would be Pernilla August, but that's another story for another time.   In a rare twist, Twist and Shout would open in Los Angeles before New York City, at the Cineplex Beverly Center August 22nd, 1986, more than two years after it opened across Denmark. Loaded with accolades including a Best Picture Award from the European Film Festival and positive reviews from the likes of Gene Siskel and Michael Wilmington, the movie would gross, according to Variety, a “crisp” $14k in its first three days. In its second weekend, the Beverly Center would add a second screen for the film, and the gross would increase to $17k. And by week four, one of those prints at the Beverly Center would move to the Laemmle Monica 4, so those on the West Side who didn't want to go east of the 405 could watch it. But the combined $13k gross would not be as good as the previous week's $14k from the two screens at the Beverly Center.   It wouldn't be until Twist and Shout's sixth week of release they would finally add a screen in New York City, the 68th Street Playhouse, where it would gross $25k in its first weekend there. But after nine weeks, never playing in more than five theatres in any given weekend, Twist and Shout was down and out, with only $204k in ticket sales. But it was good enough for Miramax to acquire August's next movie, and actually get it into American theatres within a year of its release in Denmark and Sweden. Join us next episode for that story.   Earlier, I teased about why Miramax took more than a year off from releasing movies in 1984 and 1985. And we've reached that point in the timeline to tell that story.   After writing and producing The Burning in 1981, Bob and Harvey had decided what they really wanted to do was direct. But it would take years for them to come up with an idea and flesh that story out to a full length screenplay. They'd return to their roots as rock show promoters, borrowing heavily from one of Harvey's first forays into that field, when he and a partner, Corky Burger, purchased an aging movie theatre in Buffalo in 1974 and turned it into a rock and roll hall for a few years, until they gutted and demolished the theatre, so they could sell the land, with Harvey's half of the proceeds becoming much of the seed money to start Miramax up.   After graduating high school, three best friends from New York get the opportunity of a lifetime when they inherit an old run down hotel upstate, with dreams of turning it into a rock and roll hotel. But when they get to the hotel, they realize the place is going to need a lot more work than they initially realized, and they realize they are not going to get any help from any of the locals, who don't want them or their silly rock and roll hotel in their quaint and quiet town.   With a budget of only $5m, and a story that would need to be filmed entirely on location, the cast would not include very many well known actors.   For the lead role of Danny, the young man who inherits the hotel, they would cast Daniel Jordano, whose previous acting work had been nameless characters in movies like Death Wish 3 and Streetwalkin'. This would be his first leading role.   Danny's two best friends, Silk and Spikes, would be played by Leon W. Grant and Matthew Penn, respectively. Like Jordano, both Grant and Penn had also worked in small supporting roles, although Grant would actually play characters with actual names like Boo Boo and Chollie. Penn, the son of Bonnie and Clyde director Arthur Penn, would ironically have his first acting role in a 1983 musical called Rock and Roll Hotel, about a young trio of musicians who enter a Battle of the Bands at an old hotel called The Rock and Roll Hotel. This would also be their first leading roles.   Today, there are two reasons to watch Playing For Keeps.   One of them is to see just how truly awful Bob and Harvey Weinstein were as directors. 80% of the movie is master shots without any kind of coverage, 15% is wannabe MTV music video if those videos were directed by space aliens handed video cameras and not told what to do with them, and 5% Jordano mimicking Kevin Bacon in Footloose but with the heaviest New Yawk accent this side of Bensonhurst.   The other reason is to watch a young actress in her first major screen role, who is still mesmerizing and hypnotic despite the crapfest she is surrounded by. Nineteen year old Marisa Tomei wouldn't become a star because of this movie, but it was clear very early on she was going to become one, someday.   Mostly shot in and around the grounds of the Bethany Colony Resort in Bethany PA, the film would spend six weeks in production during June and July of 1984, and they would spend more than a year and a half putting the film together. As music men, they knew a movie about a rock and roll hotel for younger people who need to have a lot of hip, cool, teen-friendly music on the soundtrack. So, naturally, the Weinsteins would recruit such hip, cool, teen-friendly musicians like Pete Townshend of The Who, Phil Collins, Peter Frampton, Sister Sledge, already defunct Duran Duran side project Arcadia, and Hinton Battle, who had originated the role of The Scarecrow in the Broadway production of The Wiz. They would spend nearly $500k to acquire B-sides and tossed away songs that weren't good enough to appear on the artists' regular albums.   Once again light on money, Miramax would sent the completed film out to the major studios to see if they'd be willing to release the movie. A sale would bring some much needed capital back into the company immediately, and creating a working relationship with a major studio could be advantageous in the long run. Universal Pictures would buy the movie from Miramax for an undisclosed sum, and set an October 3rd release.   Playing For Keeps would open on 1148 screens that day, including 56 screens in the greater Los Angeles region and 80 in the New York City metropolitan area. But it wasn't the best week to open this film. Crocodile Dundee had opened the week before and was a surprise hit, spending a second week firmly atop the box office charts with $8.2m in ticket sales. Its nearest competitor, the Burt Lancaster/Kirk Douglas comedy Tough Guys, would be the week's highest grossing new film, with $4.6m. Number three was Top Gun, earning $2.405m in its 21st week in theatres, and Stand By Me was in fourth in its ninth week with $2.396m. In fifth place, playing in only 215 theatres, would be another new opener, Children of a Lesser God, with $1.9m. And all the way down in sixth place, with only $1.4m in ticket sales, was Playing for Keeps.   The reviews were fairly brutal, and by that, I mean they were fair in their brutality, although you'll have to do some work to find those reviews. No one has ever bothered to link their reviews for Playing For Keeps at Rotten Tomatoes or Metacritic. After a second weekend, where the film would lose a quarter of its screens and 61% of its opening weekend business, Universal would cut its losses and dump the film into dollar houses. The final reported box office gross on the film would be $2.67m.   Bob Weinstein would never write or direct another film, and Harvey Weinstein would only have one other directing credit to his name, an animated movie called The Gnomes' Great Adventure, which wasn't really a directing effort so much as buying the American rights to a 1985 Spanish animated series called The World of David the Gnome, creating new English language dubs with actors like Tom Bosley, Frank Gorshin, Christopher Plummer, and Tony Randall, and selling the new versions to Nickelodeon.   Sadly, we would learn in October 2017 that one of the earliest known episodes of sexual harassment by Harvey Weinstein happened during the pre-production of Playing for Keeps.   In 1984, a twenty year old college junior Tomi-Ann Roberts was waiting tables in New York City, hoping to start an acting career. Weinstein, who one of her customers at this restaurant, urged Ms. Roberts to audition for a movie that he and his brother were planning to direct. He sent her the script and asked her to meet him where he was staying so they could discuss the film. When she arrived at his hotel room, the door was left slightly ajar, and he called on her to come in and close the door behind her.  She would find Weinstein nude in the bathtub,  where he told her she would give a much better audition if she were comfortable getting naked in front of him too, because the character she might play would have a topless scene. If she could not bare her breasts in private, she would not be able to do it on film. She was horrified and rushed out of the room, after telling Weinstein that she was too prudish to go along. She felt he had manipulated her by feigning professional interest in her, and doubted she had ever been under serious consideration. That incident would send her life in a different direction. In 2017, Roberts was a psychology professor at Colorado College, researching sexual objectification, an interest she traces back in part to that long-ago encounter.   And on that sad note, we're going to take our leave.   Thank you for joining us. We'll talk again next week, when we continue with story of Miramax Films, from 1987.   Remember to visit this episode's page on our website, The80sMoviePodcast.com, for extra materials about the movies we covered this episode.   The 80s Movies Podcast has been researched, written, narrated and edited by Edward Havens for Idiosyncratic Entertainment.   Thank you again.   Good night.

On this episode, we are continuing our miniseries on the movies released by Miramax Films in the 1980s, specifically looking at the films they released between 1984 and 1986. ----more---- TRANSCRIPT   From Los Angeles, California. The Entertainment Capital of the World. It's the 80s Movie Podcast. I am your host, Edward Havens. Thank you for listening today.   On this episode, we are continuing our miniseries on the movies released by Miramax Films in the 1980s.   And, in case you did not listen to Part 1 yet, let me reiterate that the focus here will be on the films and the creatives, not the Weinsteins. The Weinsteins did not have a hand in the production of any of the movies Miramax released in the 1980s, and that Miramax logo and the names associated with it should not stop anyone from enjoying some very well made movies because they now have an unfortunate association with two spineless chucklenuts who proclivities would not be known by the outside world for decades to come.   Well, there is one movie this episode where we must talk about the Weinsteins as the creatives, but when talking about that film, “creatives” is a derisive pejorative.    We ended our previous episode at the end of 1983. Miramax had one minor hit film in The Secret Policeman's Other Ball, thanks in large part to the film's association with members of the still beloved Monty Python comedy troupe, who hadn't released any material since The Life of Brian in 1979.   1984 would be the start of year five of the company, and they were still in need of something to make their name. Being a truly independent film company in 1984 was not easy. There were fewer than 20,000 movie screens in the entire country back then, compared to nearly 40,000 today. National video store chains like Blockbuster did not exist, and the few cable channels that did exist played mostly Hollywood films. There was no social media for images and clips to go viral.   For comparison's sake, in A24's first five years, from its founding in August 2012 to July 2017, the company would have a number of hit films, including The Bling Ring, The Lobster, Spring Breakers, and The Witch, release movies from some of indie cinema's most respected names, including Andrea Arnold, Robert Eggers, Atom Egoyan, Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, Lynn Shelton, Trey Edward Shults, Gus Van Sant, and Denis Villeneuve, and released several Academy Award winning movies, including the Amy Winehouse documentary Amy, Alex Garland's Ex Machina, Lenny Abrahamson's Room and Barry Jenkins' Moonlight, which would upset front runner La La Land for the Best Picture of 2016.   But instead of leaning into the American independent cinema world the way Cinecom and Island were doing with the likes of Jonathan Demme and John Sayles, Miramax would dip their toes further into the world of international cinema.   Their first release for 1984 would be Ruy Guerra's Eréndira. The screenplay by Nobel Prize winner Gabriel García Márquez was based on his 1972 novella The Incredible and Sad Tale of Innocent Eréndira and Her Heartless Grandmother, which itself was based off a screenplay Márquez had written in the early 1960s, which, when he couldn't get it made at the time, he reduced down to a page and a half for a sequence in his 1967 magnum opus One Hundred Years of Solitude. Between the early 1960s and the early 1980s, Márquez would lose the original draft of Eréndira, and would write a new script based off what he remembered writing twenty years earlier.    In the story, a young woman named Eréndira lives in a near mansion situation in an otherwise empty desert with her grandmother, who had collected a number of paper flowers and assorted tchotchkes over the years. One night, Eréndira forgets to put out some candles used to illuminate the house, and the house and all of its contents burn to the ground. With everything lost, Eréndira's grandmother forces her into a life of prostitution. The young woman quickly becomes the courtesan of choice in the region. With every new journey, an ever growing caravan starts to follow them, until it becomes for all intents and purposes a carnival, with food vendors, snake charmers, musicians and games of chance.   Márquez's writing style, known as “magic realism,” was very cinematic on the page, and it's little wonder that many of his stories have been made into movies and television miniseries around the globe for more than a half century. Yet no movie came as close to capturing that Marquezian prose quite the way Guerra did with Eréndira. Featuring Greek goddess Irene Papas as the Grandmother, Brazilian actress Cláudia Ohana, who happened to be married to Guerra at the time, as the titular character, and former Bond villain Michael Lonsdale in a small but important role as a Senator who tries to help Eréndira get out of her life as a slave, the movie would be Mexico's entry into the 1983 Academy Award race for Best Foreign Language Film.   After acquiring the film for American distribution, Miramax would score a coup by getting the film accepted to that year's New York Film Festival, alongside such films as Robert Altman's Streamers, Jean Lucy Godard's Passion, Lawrence Kasdan's The Big Chill, Francis Ford Coppola's Rumble Fish, and Andrzej Wajda's Danton.   But despite some stellar reviews from many of the New York City film critics, Eréndira would not get nominated for Best Foreign Language Film, and Miramax would wait until April 27th, 1984, to open the film at the Lincoln Plaza Cinemas, one of the most important theatres in New York City at the time to launch a foreign film. A quarter page ad in the New York Times included quotes from the Village Voice, New York Magazine, Vincent Canby of the Times and Roger Ebert, the movie would gross an impressive $25,500 in its first three days. Word of mouth in the city would be strong, with its second weekend gross actually increasing nearly 20% to $30,500. Its third weekend would fall slightly, but with $27k in the till would still be better than its first weekend.   It wouldn't be until Week 5 that Eréndira would expand into Los Angeles and Chicago, where it would continue to gross nearly $20k per screen for several more weeks. The film would continue to play across the nation for more than half a year, and despite never making more than four prints of the film, Eréndira would gross more than $600k in America, one of the best non-English language releases for all of 1984.   In their quickest turnaround from one film to another to date, Miramax would release Claude Lelouch's Edith and Marcel not five weeks after Eréndira.   If you're not familiar with the name Claude Chabrol, I would highly suggest becoming so. Chabrol was a part of the French New Wave filmmakers alongside Jean-Luc Godard, Jacques Rivette, Éric Rohmer, and François Truffaut who came up as film critics for the influential French magazine Cahiers [ka-yay] du Cinéma in the 1950s, who would go on to change the direction of French Cinema and how film fans appreciated films and filmmakers through the concept of The Auteur Theory, although the theory itself would be given a name by American film critic Andrew Sarris in 1962.   Of these five critics turned filmmakers, Chabrol would be considered the most prolific and commercial. Chabrol would be the first of them to make a film, Le Beau Serge, and between 1957 and his death in 2010, he would make 58 movies. That's more than one new movie every year on average, not counting shorts and television projects he also made on the side.   American audiences knew him best for his 1966 global hit A Man and a Woman, which would sell more than $14m in tickets in the US and would be one of the few foreign language films to earn Academy Award nominations outside of the Best Foreign Language Film race. Lead actress Anouk Aimee would get a nod, and Chabrol would earn two on the film, for Best Director, which he would lose to Fred Zimmerman and A Man for All Seasons, and Best Original Screenplay, which he would win alongside his co-writer Pierre Uytterhoeven.   Edith and Marcel would tell the story of the love affair between the iconic French singer Edith Piaf and Marcel Cerdan, the French boxer who was the Middleweight Champion of the World during their affair in 1948 and 1949. Both were famous in their own right, but together, they were the Brangelina of post-World War II France. Despite the fact that Cerdan was married with three kids, their affair helped lift the spirits of the French people, until his death in October 1949, while he was flying from Paris to New York to see Piaf.   Fans of Raging Bull are somewhat familiar with Marcel Cerdan already, as Cerdan's last fight before his death would find Cerdan losing his middleweight title to Jake LaMotta.   In a weird twist of fate, Patrick Dewaere, the actor Chabrol cast as Cerdan, committed suicide just after the start of production, and while Chabrol considered shutting down the film in respect, it would be none other than Marcel Cerdan, Jr. who would step in to the role of his own father, despite never having acted before, and being six years older than his father was when he died.   When it was released in France in April 1983, it was an immediate hit, become the second highest French film of the year, and the sixth highest grosser of all films released in the country that year. However, it would not be the film France submitted to that year's Academy Award race. That would be Diane Kurys' Entre Nous, which wasn't as big a hit in France but was considered a stronger contender for the nomination, in part because of Isabelle Hupert's amazing performance but also because Entre Nous, as 110 minutes, was 50 minutes shorter than Edith and Marcel.   Harvey Weinstein would cut twenty minutes out of the film without Chabrol's consent or assistance, and when the film was released at the 57th Street Playhouse in New York City on Sunday, June 3rd, the gushing reviews in the New York Times ad would actually be for Chabrol's original cut, and they would help the film gross $15,300 in its first five days. But once the other New York critics who didn't get to see the original cut of the film saw this new cut, the critical consensus started to fall. Things felt off to them, and they would be, as a number of short trims made by Weinstein would remove important context for the film for the sake of streamlining the film. Audiences would pick up on the changes, and in its first full weekend of release, the film would only gross $12k. After two more weeks of grosses of under $4k each week, the film would close in New York City. Edith and Marcel would never play in another theatre in the United States.   And then there would be another year plus long gap before their next release, but we'll get into the reason why in a few moments.   Many people today know Rubén Blades as Daniel Salazar in Fear the Walking Dead, or from his appearances in The Milagro Beanfield War, Once Upon a Time in Mexico, or Predator 2, amongst his 40 plus acting appearances over the years, but in the early 1980s, he was a salsa and Latin Jazz musician and singer who had yet to break out of the New Yorican market. With an idea for a movie about a singer and musician not unlike himself trying to attempt a crossover success into mainstream music, he would approach his friend, director Leon Icasho, about teaming up to get the idea fleshed out into a real movie. Although Blades was at best a cult music star, and Icasho had only made one movie before, they were able to raise $6m from a series of local investors including Jack Rollins, who produced every Woody Allen movie from 1969's Take the Money and Run to 2015's Irrational Man, to make their movie, which they would start shooting in the Spanish Harlem section of New York City in December 1982.   Despite the luxury of a large budget for an independent Latino production, the shooting schedule was very tight, less than five weeks. There would be a number of large musical segments to show Blades' character Rudy's talents as a musician and singer, with hundreds of extras on hand in each scene. Icasho would stick to his 28 day schedule, and the film would wrap up shortly after the New Year.   Even though the director would have his final cut of the movie ready by the start of summer 1983, it would take nearly a year and a half for any distributor to nibble. It wasn't that the film was tedious. Quite the opposite. Many distributors enjoyed the film, but worried about, ironically, the ability of the film to crossover out of the Latino market into the mainstream. So when Miramax came along with a lower than hoped for offer to release the film, the filmmakers took the deal, because they just wanted the film out there.   Things would start to pick up for the film when Miramax submitted the film to be entered into the 1985 Cannes Film Festival, and it would be submitted to run in the prestigious Directors Fortnight program, alongside Mike Newell's breakthrough film, Dance with a Stranger, Victor Nunez's breakthrough film, A Flash of Green, and Wayne Wang's breakthrough film Dim Sum: A Little Bit of Heart. While they were waiting for Cannes to get back to them, they would also learn the film had been selected to be a part of The Lincoln Center's New Directors/New Films program, where the film would earn raves from local critics and audiences, especially for Blades, who many felt was a screen natural. After more praise from critics and audiences on the French Riviera, Miramax would open Crossover Dreams at the Cinema Studio theatre in midtown Manhattan on August 23rd, 1985. Originally booked into the smaller 180 seat auditorium, since John Huston's Prizzi's Honor was still doing good business in the 300 seat house in its fourth week, the theatre would swap houses for the films when it became clear early on Crossover Dreams' first day that it would be the more popular title that weekend. And it would. While Prizzi would gross a still solid $10k that weekend, Crossover Dreams would gross $35k. In its second weekend, the film would again gross $35k. And in its third weekend, another $35k. They were basically selling out every seat at every show those first three weeks. Clearly, the film was indeed doing some crossover business.   But, strangely, Miramax would wait seven weeks after opening the film in New York to open it in Los Angeles. With a new ad campaign that de-emphasized Blades and played up the dreamer dreaming big aspect of the film, Miramax would open the movie at two of the more upscale theatres in the area, the Cineplex Beverly Center on the outskirts of Beverly Hills, and the Cineplex Brentwood Twin, on the west side where many of Hollywood's tastemakers called home. Even with a plethora of good reviews from the local press, and playing at two theatres with a capacity of more than double the one theatre playing the film in New York, Crossover Dreams could only manage a neat $13k opening weekend.   Slowly but surely, Miramax would add a few more prints in additional major markets, but never really gave the film the chance to score with Latino audiences who may have been craving a salsa-infused musical/drama, even if it was entirely in English. Looking back, thirty-eight years later, that seems to have been a mistake, but it seems that the film's final gross of just $250k after just ten weeks of release was leaving a lot of money on the table. At awards time, Blades would be nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for Best Actor, but otherwise, the film would be shut out of any further consideration.   But for all intents and purposes, the film did kinda complete its mission of turning Blades into a star. He continues to be one of the busiest Latino actors in Hollywood over the last forty years, and it would help get one of his co-stars, Elizabeth Peña, a major job in a major Hollywood film the following year, as the live-in maid at Richard Dreyfuss and Bette Midler's house in Paul Mazursky's Down and Out in Beverly Hills, which would give her a steady career until her passing in 2014. And Icasho himself would have a successful directing career both on movie screens and on television, working on such projects as Miami Vice, Crime Story, The Equalizer, Criminal Minds, and Queen of the South, until his passing this past May.   I'm going to briefly mention a Canadian drama called The Dog Who Stopped the War that Miramax released on three screens in their home town of Buffalo on October 25th, 1985. A children's film about two groups of children in a small town in Quebec during their winter break who get involved in an ever-escalating snowball fight. It would be the highest grossing local film in Canada in 1984, and would become the first in a series of 25 family films under a Tales For All banner made by a company called Party Productions, which will be releasing their newest film in the series later this year. The film may have huge in Canada, but in Buffalo in the late fall, the film would only gross $15k in its first, and only, week in theatres. The film would eventually develop a cult following thanks to repeated cable screenings during the holidays every year.   We'll also give a brief mention to an Australian action movie called Cool Change, directed by George Miller. No, not the George Miller who created the Mad Max series, but the other Australian director named George Miller, who had to start going by George T. Miller to differentiate himself from the other George Miller, even though this George Miller was directing before the other George Miller, and even had a bigger local and global hit in 1982 with The Man From Snowy River than the other George Miller had with Mad Max II, aka The Road Warrior. It would also be the second movie released by Miramax in a year starring a young Australian ingenue named Deborra-Lee Furness, who was also featured in Crossover Dreams. Today, most people know her as Mrs. Hugh Jackman.   The internet and several book sources say the movie opened in America on March 14th, 1986, but damn if I can find any playdate anywhere in the country, period. Not even in the Weinsteins' home territory of Buffalo. A critic from the Sydney Morning Herald would call the film, which opened in Australia four weeks after it allegedly opened in America, a spectacularly simplistic propaganda piece for the cattle farmers of the Victorian high plains,” and in its home country, it would barely gross 2% of its $3.5m budget.   And sticking with brief mentions of Australian movies Miramax allegedly released in American in the spring of 1986, we move over to one of three movies directed by Brian Trenchard-Smith that would be released during that year. In Australia, it was titled Frog Dreaming, but for America, the title was changed to The Quest. The film stars Henry Thomas from E.T. as an American boy who has moved to Australia to be with his guardian after his parents die, who finds himself caught up in the magic of a local Aboriginal myth that might be more real than anyone realizes.   And like Cool Change, I cannot find any American playdates for the film anywhere near its alleged May 1st, 1986 release date. I even contacted Mr. Trenchard-Smith asking him if he remembers anything about the American release of his film, knowing full well it's 37 years later, but while being very polite in his response, he was unable to help.       Finally, we get back to the movies we actually can talk about with some certainty. I know our next movie was actually released in American theatres, because I saw it in America at a cinema.   Twist and Shout tells the story of two best friends, Bjørn and Erik, growing up in suburbs of Copenhagen, Denmark in 1963. The music of The Beatles, who are just exploding in Europe, help provide a welcome respite from the harsh realities of their lives.   Directed by Billie August, Twist and Shout would become the first of several August films to be released by Miramax over the next decade, including his follow-up, which would end up become Miramax's first Oscar-winning release, but we'll be talking about that movie on our next episode.   August was often seen as a spiritual successor to Ingmar Bergman within Scandinavian cinema, so much so that Bergman would handpick August to direct a semi-autobiographical screenplay of his, The Best Intentions, in the early 1990s, when it became clear to Bergman that he would not be able to make it himself. Bergman's only stipulation was that August would need to cast one of his actresses from Fanny and Alexander, Pernilla Wallgren, as his stand-in character's mother. August and Wallgren had never met until they started filming. By the end of shooting, Pernilla Wallgren would be Pernilla August, but that's another story for another time.   In a rare twist, Twist and Shout would open in Los Angeles before New York City, at the Cineplex Beverly Center August 22nd, 1986, more than two years after it opened across Denmark. Loaded with accolades including a Best Picture Award from the European Film Festival and positive reviews from the likes of Gene Siskel and Michael Wilmington, the movie would gross, according to Variety, a “crisp” $14k in its first three days. In its second weekend, the Beverly Center would add a second screen for the film, and the gross would increase to $17k. And by week four, one of those prints at the Beverly Center would move to the Laemmle Monica 4, so those on the West Side who didn't want to go east of the 405 could watch it. But the combined $13k gross would not be as good as the previous week's $14k from the two screens at the Beverly Center.   It wouldn't be until Twist and Shout's sixth week of release they would finally add a screen in New York City, the 68th Street Playhouse, where it would gross $25k in its first weekend there. But after nine weeks, never playing in more than five theatres in any given weekend, Twist and Shout was down and out, with only $204k in ticket sales. But it was good enough for Miramax to acquire August's next movie, and actually get it into American theatres within a year of its release in Denmark and Sweden. Join us next episode for that story.   Earlier, I teased about why Miramax took more than a year off from releasing movies in 1984 and 1985. And we've reached that point in the timeline to tell that story.   After writing and producing The Burning in 1981, Bob and Harvey had decided what they really wanted to do was direct. But it would take years for them to come up with an idea and flesh that story out to a full length screenplay. They'd return to their roots as rock show promoters, borrowing heavily from one of Harvey's first forays into that field, when he and a partner, Corky Burger, purchased an aging movie theatre in Buffalo in 1974 and turned it into a rock and roll hall for a few years, until they gutted and demolished the theatre, so they could sell the land, with Harvey's half of the proceeds becoming much of the seed money to start Miramax up.   After graduating high school, three best friends from New York get the opportunity of a lifetime when they inherit an old run down hotel upstate, with dreams of turning it into a rock and roll hotel. But when they get to the hotel, they realize the place is going to need a lot more work than they initially realized, and they realize they are not going to get any help from any of the locals, who don't want them or their silly rock and roll hotel in their quaint and quiet town.   With a budget of only $5m, and a story that would need to be filmed entirely on location, the cast would not include very many well known actors.   For the lead role of Danny, the young man who inherits the hotel, they would cast Daniel Jordano, whose previous acting work had been nameless characters in movies like Death Wish 3 and Streetwalkin'. This would be his first leading role.   Danny's two best friends, Silk and Spikes, would be played by Leon W. Grant and Matthew Penn, respectively. Like Jordano, both Grant and Penn had also worked in small supporting roles, although Grant would actually play characters with actual names like Boo Boo and Chollie. Penn, the son of Bonnie and Clyde director Arthur Penn, would ironically have his first acting role in a 1983 musical called Rock and Roll Hotel, about a young trio of musicians who enter a Battle of the Bands at an old hotel called The Rock and Roll Hotel. This would also be their first leading roles.   Today, there are two reasons to watch Playing For Keeps.   One of them is to see just how truly awful Bob and Harvey Weinstein were as directors. 80% of the movie is master shots without any kind of coverage, 15% is wannabe MTV music video if those videos were directed by space aliens handed video cameras and not told what to do with them, and 5% Jordano mimicking Kevin Bacon in Footloose but with the heaviest New Yawk accent this side of Bensonhurst.   The other reason is to watch a young actress in her first major screen role, who is still mesmerizing and hypnotic despite the crapfest she is surrounded by. Nineteen year old Marisa Tomei wouldn't become a star because of this movie, but it was clear very early on she was going to become one, someday.   Mostly shot in and around the grounds of the Bethany Colony Resort in Bethany PA, the film would spend six weeks in production during June and July of 1984, and they would spend more than a year and a half putting the film together. As music men, they knew a movie about a rock and roll hotel for younger people who need to have a lot of hip, cool, teen-friendly music on the soundtrack. So, naturally, the Weinsteins would recruit such hip, cool, teen-friendly musicians like Pete Townshend of The Who, Phil Collins, Peter Frampton, Sister Sledge, already defunct Duran Duran side project Arcadia, and Hinton Battle, who had originated the role of The Scarecrow in the Broadway production of The Wiz. They would spend nearly $500k to acquire B-sides and tossed away songs that weren't good enough to appear on the artists' regular albums.   Once again light on money, Miramax would sent the completed film out to the major studios to see if they'd be willing to release the movie. A sale would bring some much needed capital back into the company immediately, and creating a working relationship with a major studio could be advantageous in the long run. Universal Pictures would buy the movie from Miramax for an undisclosed sum, and set an October 3rd release.   Playing For Keeps would open on 1148 screens that day, including 56 screens in the greater Los Angeles region and 80 in the New York City metropolitan area. But it wasn't the best week to open this film. Crocodile Dundee had opened the week before and was a surprise hit, spending a second week firmly atop the box office charts with $8.2m in ticket sales. Its nearest competitor, the Burt Lancaster/Kirk Douglas comedy Tough Guys, would be the week's highest grossing new film, with $4.6m. Number three was Top Gun, earning $2.405m in its 21st week in theatres, and Stand By Me was in fourth in its ninth week with $2.396m. In fifth place, playing in only 215 theatres, would be another new opener, Children of a Lesser God, with $1.9m. And all the way down in sixth place, with only $1.4m in ticket sales, was Playing for Keeps.   The reviews were fairly brutal, and by that, I mean they were fair in their brutality, although you'll have to do some work to find those reviews. No one has ever bothered to link their reviews for Playing For Keeps at Rotten Tomatoes or Metacritic. After a second weekend, where the film would lose a quarter of its screens and 61% of its opening weekend business, Universal would cut its losses and dump the film into dollar houses. The final reported box office gross on the film would be $2.67m.   Bob Weinstein would never write or direct another film, and Harvey Weinstein would only have one other directing credit to his name, an animated movie called The Gnomes' Great Adventure, which wasn't really a directing effort so much as buying the American rights to a 1985 Spanish animated series called The World of David the Gnome, creating new English language dubs with actors like Tom Bosley, Frank Gorshin, Christopher Plummer, and Tony Randall, and selling the new versions to Nickelodeon.   Sadly, we would learn in October 2017 that one of the earliest known episodes of sexual harassment by Harvey Weinstein happened during the pre-production of Playing for Keeps.   In 1984, a twenty year old college junior Tomi-Ann Roberts was waiting tables in New York City, hoping to start an acting career. Weinstein, who one of her customers at this restaurant, urged Ms. Roberts to audition for a movie that he and his brother were planning to direct. He sent her the script and asked her to meet him where he was staying so they could discuss the film. When she arrived at his hotel room, the door was left slightly ajar, and he called on her to come in and close the door behind her.  She would find Weinstein nude in the bathtub,  where he told her she would give a much better audition if she were comfortable getting naked in front of him too, because the character she might play would have a topless scene. If she could not bare her breasts in private, she would not be able to do it on film. She was horrified and rushed out of the room, after telling Weinstein that she was too prudish to go along. She felt he had manipulated her by feigning professional interest in her, and doubted she had ever been under serious consideration. That incident would send her life in a different direction. In 2017, Roberts was a psychology professor at Colorado College, researching sexual objectification, an interest she traces back in part to that long-ago encounter.   And on that sad note, we're going to take our leave.   Thank you for joining us. We'll talk again next week, when we continue with story of Miramax Films, from 1987.   Remember to visit this episode's page on our website, The80sMoviePodcast.com, for extra materials about the movies we covered this episode.   The 80s Movies Podcast has been researched, written, narrated and edited by Edward Havens for Idiosyncratic Entertainment.   Thank you again.   Good night.

He's On a literacy mission and is an investor in Edsoma a powerful literacy APP.The world has experienced a shift since the pandemic broke out. Now, self-education has taken a stronger stand than ever, with remote learning and parents actively being school teachers' assistants. This has, however, enabled poor quality learning and reading. To fix the situation, Kyle Wallgren got the idea to build a new communication and reading application called Edsoma.Edsoma was designed to get children back in the reading culture and help them bond better with the authority figures in their lives. The app has been on the trajectory to become every family's favorite reading application with its numerous features and functionalities that encourage bonding while learning. One remarkable thing about Edsoma is that parents and guardians do not need to be physically present with their children to read with them. Instead, they can do the reading from any part of the world and still achieve the same.The app's creator and CEO, Kyle Wallgren, got the inspiration to build the app due to his marital status as a divorced parent.“I wanted to continue reading with my children even when I'm not with them. So, I created this app for not just myself but other parents in a similar situation,” he revealed. “Not just divorced parents can benefit from this app, other parents who have to travel for work and veterans get to spend time with their children.”Beyond being just a reading application, Edsoma also does some tutoring by means of correcting readers when they mispronounce a word during a read-aloud. This is one of the app's key selling points, as children are prone to mispronouncing words or skipping them altogether. So, the app steps in and corrects the pronunciation to make sure they read words correctly. Keeping track of reading activities has also been made easier on Edsoma, as parents, schools, and teachers can all monitor books read and progress made.Edsoma got some props recently at the SXSW Convention in Austin, Texas, where people expressed deep interest in the app and were enthusiastic about getting it on their devices. Wallgren notes that people's interest in the app is not entirely surprising, as many children have fallen behind with their reading during the pandemic.“I especially love the increased confidence we see in children using the app combined with the boosted passion for learning and actually learning how to read words correctly,” he said.The public launch date for Edsoma is this spring, and right now, the website has gone live for pre-subscription registrations. Teachers and parents already have rave reviews about the application, which has set plans for future collaborations with schools and tutoring companies in motion.In the next few years, the goal for Edsoma is to be a part of more educational and parenting programs, helping children develop their reading skills and relationships with parents, guardians, and teachers.Deborah's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/what.ive.learnt/Mind, Film and Publishing: https://www.mindfilmandpublishing.com/Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/what-ive-learnt/id153556330Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3TQjCspxcrSi4yw2YugxBkBuzzsprout: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1365850

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Brian sits down with Henning Wallgren.

Brian sits down with Henning Wallgren.

Join the MICE Talk 360 conversation with Freddy Muller, AVP, Global Corporate, Incentive & Charter Sales for Royal Caribbean Cruise International. Listen in as we discuss the current cruise world, how the future is shaping up, and cruise experiences.  Cruising is a major component of our incentive/group/meetings market and the message from this conversation is good for all of us.

Kyle Wallgren | Edsoma - Read, Learn, and Grow Together with Edsoma. Edsoma is an application designed to improve literacy through an AI reading assistant while tracking real-time data. The application's real-time scoring system is used to identify strengths and weaknesses in children's reading. With live follow-along technology, Edsoma can ensure that children's reading will no longer be incorrect. Our mission: We believe that literacy is the pathway to opportunity. Our goal is to provide everyone access to literacy. Our purpose is to give everyone a reading chance. What makes us different? Edsoma is constructed with patent pending Artificial Intelligence (AI) software that helps the reader properly pronounce words using a proprietary syllable breakdown technology. Edsoma includes adolescent speech pattern recognition to provide accurate enunciation of each word in every book in the Edsoma Library. Over 1.1 billion people around the world read below the standard, with 130 million in the United States reading below the sixth-grade level. Nationwide, only 35% of students are reading proficiently by the fourth grade. Without proficient literacy skills, students have fewer higher education and career options. Raising the average reading proficiency to the 6th grade level would add $2.2 trillion to the GDP in urban and rural economic development. Kyle Wallgren, President and CEO originally created Edsoma in 2021 to foster a better reading culture between parents and children despite their geographical locations. “I wanted to continue reading with my children even when I could not physically be with them. I created this app not just for myself but for other parents in a similar situation. As I researched and learned of the global need to raise literacy levels, it became my mission to help.” -- About Kyle: Kyle is a dad of 4 kids and a serial entrepreneur that moved to America five years ago. He's already built and sold two businesses since being in the USA. He was kicked out of school in the 9th grade. Later in life, he saw the need for the Edsoma product because he couldn't read to his kids. Edsoma was his Daughter's idea and she was 6 at the time. --

Join the MICE Talk 360 conversation with Hasan Dinc, Managing Partner, ODS Turkey, and SITE Turkey past president. Listen as he discusses chapter resurrection, winning Chapter of the Year, and competition/cooperation.  Sustaining friendships and conversation halfway around the world pays dividends. Make every opportunity count.

H2 Green Steel was founded in 2020 with the aim to build a large-scale green steel production in northern Sweden. H2 Green Steel is on a mission to undertake the global steel industry's greatest ever technological shift. By 2024, H2 Green Steel will be in production at their Boden site, and by 2030, will produce five million tonnes of green steel annually. Vargas, co-founder and a major shareholder in Northvolt, is also H2 Green Steel's founder and largest shareholder. The EAH team speaks with Kajsa Ryttberg-Wallgren, head of the Hydrogen Business Unit at H2 Green Steel. Links: H2 Green Steel web site: https://www.h2greensteel.com/ About H2 Green Steel: https://www.h2greensteel.com/stories H2 recruiting site: https://career.h2greensteel.com/

Svenska friidrottare tar oss bakåt i tiden för att uppmärksamma en av svensk friidrotts stora pionjärer - Karin Lundgren (då Wallgren). Karin som var den som visade vägen för kvinnor att våga satsa på sin friidrottskarriär, att träna hårt och att nå resultat. Det blev inte mindre än 43 SM-guld, varav 19 individuella och ett antal mästerskap för Karin Wallgren. I avsnittet hinner vi med att prata om hur det började fram t o m 1967 - avsnitt två släpps fredag 15/4

Konvertiten och PT:n Simon Wallgren gästar idag Lyckopodden för att berätta om sin unika väg från ateist till troende muslim. Trots medias uppmålade bild av en förtryckt och krigsrisk religion valde Simon att konvertera till Islam. Han berättar hur han såg igenom medias förvrängda bild av religionen och valde att tolka den utifrån ett neutralt perspektiv. Vi pratar om varför Islam som religion är så missförstådd, om varför han som valde att göra en så stor livsförändring som att konvertera, och varför religion kan göra dig lyckligare! Jag som helt ny på ämnet lät nyfikenheten driva samtalet och jag hoppas verkligen du som lyssnar idag ska ha lärt dig massor med nya saker om religion, islam och lycka. Så, öppna upp sinnet, rätta till hörlurarna och låt introt guida dig in i religionens värld! Varsågod! Det här avsnittet sponsras av Paradiset - Bad, SPA och Wellness i Örnsköldsvik: Besök Paradisets hemsida: https://www.paradisetornskoldsvik.se/   Tack för att just du lyssnar! Prenumerera gärna på Lyckopodden, följ oss på sociala medier, och ge oss gärna fem stjärnor på iTunes om du tycker det här var lika bra som jag. ♫ Lyssna på Lyckopodden: iTunes: http://apple.co/1XZqDAm Acast: http://bit.ly/LyckopoddenAcast ♥ Facebook: http://bit.ly/fblyckopodden ♥ Youtube: http://bitly.com/LpYoutube ♥ Instagram: https://instagram.com/lyckopodden

Welcome to The Business Influencer Podcast where we interview and explore the success stories of entrepreneurs, business leaders, senior policymakers and get insights from thought leaders around the issues of the day. In this episode, our host interviews Kyle Wallgren, an award-winning serial entrepreneur and the CEO/Founder of Edsoma. We discuss entrepreneurship, education and parenthood and how AI is changing the way we learn. Credits: Host - Ninder Johal DL Audio editing - Simren K. Johal Executive Producer - Narinder K. Johal Music - EWC/ Nachural Selection (Album) © Copyright by Nachural Publishing / Nachural Publishing Subscribe for more podcasts!

Join 2021 SITE President Aoife Delaney, and 2022 SITE President Kevin Edmunds for our first episode of the year. Take a look back with Aoife and to the future with Kevin. Yes, the SITE Global Conference was postponed but is rescheduled for April 20 - 23, 2022. A quick listen confirms that good things have been happening, with more on the horizon.  The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself. We lead a charmed life.

Listen and appreciate Episode 3 of 20 Minutes Of Women IN Leadership as moderator, Barbara Scofidio, editor of Prevue Magazine, is joined by Holly Mills, CITP, head of Incentives for UK based Eventful Limited, and Pamela Shepherd, CITP, CIS, and Global Sales Director for Global Events Team, for a discussion about your network, your friends and your personal role in the search for a job in these changing times. Embrace your friends, connect to your network and look inside yourself for direction and answers on your personal job search. You might be surprised.

Join us for the last MT360 conversation of the year as Dr. Patrick Patridge shares the motivation behind his new book - Incentive Travel For a New World - and discusses the future of incentives as they re-emerge with our move from pandemic darkness to the light of recovery and new progress. The old saying is "You can't judge a book by its cover". And while that may be true, nothing will prevent you from making use of the good ideas inside. Don't be shy.

Join the MICE Talk 360 conversation with IMEX CEO Carina Bauer as she shares the thoughts and ideas that shaped IMEX 2021 and the map to our future. Achieving good things never comes easy. Carina and the IMEX team never stopped, even when the finish line kept moving.  Striving for results and sharing their vision made us all appreciate it just that much more.

Join the MICE Talk 360 conversation with International Group Sales (IGS) founder and CFO Jose “Pepe” Villela and daughter, Norma Villela Alberico, President and National Director of Sales, as they discuss transition and growth in a family business. When the draw of hospitality is strong and your path becomes clear, you create something that sets you apart. This is one of those stories. The combined power of family and vision - make the connection! 

About Kyle Wallgren and Edsoma: Kyle Wallgren is an award-winning serial entrepreneur and the CEO & founder of the children's education communication platform named Edsoma:“I started my entrepreneur journey at the age of 23 in the concrete industry. I was able to build and sell the company in 3 years and moved into the oilfield Industry . Five years later I was building another company with 34 employees, generating over $14 million a year in revenue -and yet this journey also taught me about how to navigate through unexpected downs.Eventually I decided to sell and moved from Canada to America, a country that always inspired me due to it's pioneer spirit. Since living in the United States, I' ve built several companies and partnerships, strongly driven by the desire to build a better life for my son and daughter plus a unique legacy as an entrepreneur.When my 6 year old daughter came to me asking for me to read her bedtime stories the answer was always going to be yes -and geography should not throw a wrench into that commitment. No matter where my business travels would take me. Another motivating factor : after doing some research my team found that 50% of Americans read at a grade 8 reading level and 54 million adult Americans can't read at all. From this we formed Edsoma, an app that unites and guides early readers...." Edsoma is an application designed to bring family quality time back together. Through FaceTime opportunities, we provide the resources to continue Adult to Child, Child to Child, and Self Child reading. With our live follow-along technology we can ensure that Child self-reading will no longer be incorrect. Launching 2021

Join the Take 5 with SITE conversation as Dana Weaver, Senior Manager, Marketing Services with Bloomington, IL-based Growmark, Inc., a past president of SITE Chicago and a current member of the SITE Foundation Board of Trustees shares his vision of the road ahead. Transformation and looking to the future.

Join the Take 5 with SITE conversation as Lisa Kincannon, Founder and Managing Director of Opus Event Solutions, and current President of SITE Mountain West, shares positive thoughts on recovery and growth for the industry future. Listen and enjoy as Lisa's experience helps light our way forward.

Join the conversation as Lisa Kincannon, Founder and Managing Director of Opus Event Solutions, and current President of SITE Mountain West, shares the short, but active, early life of this young chapter, along with plans for the future. Building on history helps pave the road to the chapter's future.

Join the conversation with Dr. Rick Garlick, Vice President and Strategy Consultant with Magid, as he discusses the results from his latest IRF research white paper. Dr. Garlick and his research provide the tools necessary to create and deliver successful programs, and this latest white paper shows that destination selection is key. Research creates the roadmap that puts your programs on the path to success. 

Join the Take 5 with SITE conversation as Karen Devine, founder, and CEO of 3D Cruise Partners and Stacey Fitzgerald, Vice President of  Sales for 3D Cruise Partners shine their light on industry recovery at sea. The case for incentives at sea continues to get stronger. My inner pirate voice says everyone wins.

Join the conversation with 3D Cruise Partners as Karen Devine, founder, and CEO, along with Vice President of  Sales Stacey Fitzgerald, as they bring a healthy dose of reality to the cruise conversation. 18 months can seem like an eternity when things don't seem to be going your way. But what if they were going your way, but it was hard for people to know that? Karen and Stacey bring optimism, perspective, and cold, hard facts to the discussion. Looks like the sun may be peeking out from behind the cloud.

Join us for this special year-end episode of Take 5 with MICE Talk 360 as we take a moment to reflect on our 2020 triumphs and thank those who supported that effort. To 2021, I say Bring It On!

Join us for another episode of Take 5 with MICE Talk 360, as my guests, Jenn Glynn, 2020 SITE President & Aoife Delaney, 2021 SITE President, share family moments and memories that make the season special. Share the joy - share the love. It makes us all better people.

Join the conversation with MICE Talk 360 guests: Jenn Glynn, CIS, CITP, and 2020 SITE President and Aoife Delaney, CIS, CITP, and 2021 SITE President share SITE highs and lows that fostered a continued push for a sense of community and support. A light shines in the darkness and grows brighter every day.

Join the conversation with MICE Talk 360 guest: Anne Marie Rogers, CITP, Director of Meetings & Incentives for Direct Travel and current SITE board member. In this instalment of our Ladies Who Lead series, we discuss 2020, look ahead to 2021 and reflect on our ability to learn from others, often getting more than you give. The connection with people elevates us all.

Denna vecka gästas vi av Anna Wallgren, som bland annat skrivit en debatt-artikel om att alla har rätt till semester – inte bara föräldrar. Hur togs den emot? Sen snackar vi även om hennes virala tweet om att vara barnfri, hur konstigt det känns när folk tror att man har barn och en hel del annat. Följ oss i sociala medier, där heter vi barnfrihet. Och stötta podden genom att gå in på patreon.com/barnfrihet och skriva upp dig på en prenumeration.

Join us for another episode of Take 5 with MICE Talk 360 as my guest, Colleen Brzozowski, CIS, President of SITE Chicago, and I share a shout-out love letter to Rebecca Wright, SITE Head of Chapter Engagement.   Thanking our friends at SITE seems like the right thing to do.

Join the conversation with MICE Talk 360 guest: Colleen Brzozowski, CIS, President SITE Chicago. In this third instalment of our Chapter to Chapter series, we get a look at how 2020 stood SITE Chicago on its head and how, with a lot of hard work and creative thinking, things got back on track to deliver value to its membership. As I often say - If it was easy, everyone would do it. 

Join the conversation with MICE Talk 360 guest: Colleen Brozowski, President SITE Chicago. In this third instalment of our Chapter to Chapter series, we get a look at how 2020 stood SITE Chicago on its head and how, with a lot of hard work and creative thinking, things got back on track to deliver value to its membership. As I often say - If it was easy, everyone would do it. 

Ian Wallgren, a YC junior from Menominee, MI, encourages listeners to push past the what ifs and regrets and look for the lessons that can be learned in the trials of life.

Vi möter Henrik Wallgren för att prata äventyr. Från resor med ökensegelfartyg genom nevadaöknen, och ayahuascaritualer i Amazonas, till att samtalet blir ett äventyr i sig. Vi pratar om människan, hennes drivkrafter, om att blicka inåt och att se helheten.

Stefan ”Stojje” Wallgren är en äkta cykelnörd som alltid har cykeln nära i sitt sinne. Hur kan den där leden cyklas på bästa sätt? Han använder gärna cykeln till att utforska städer och andra platser och sitter i styrelsen för Skellefteå AIK Cykel samt är en av grundarna till Skellefteå Bike Arena. Skellefteå Bike Arena Läs mer ...

Stefan "Stojje" Wallgren är en äkta cykelnörd som alltid har cykeln nära i sitt sinne. Hur kan den där leden cyklas på bästa sätt? Han använder gärna cykeln till att utforska städer och andra platser och sitter i styrelsen för Skellefteå AIK Cykel samt är en av grundarna till Skellefteå Bike Arena. Skellefteå Bike Arena På Vitberget i Skellefteå, öppnades sommaren 2020 efter fyra års jobb, Skandinaviens just nu största bike park. Idén till denna fick Stefan vid ett besök i Norge. Video Länkar https://www.visitskelleftea.se/sv/296693/Skelleftea-Bike-Arena-Vitberget/ https://idrottonline.se/SkellefteaAIKCK/ https://www.facebook.com/SAIKCK/ The Larsson Pod

I Detta avsnitt möter vi en av Sveriges mest kända butiksanställda som är känd från TV-serien Ullared men gjorde också stor succé i det populära programmet Farmen. Här hör ni Ola-Conny i öppenhjärtig intervju där han avslöjar om allt ifrån sin drömgäst Julia Roberts vid middagsbordet till livet som stjärna på varuhuset Ullared. Självklart får ni också höra vilka 2 favoritlåtar just Ola-Conny valt. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Amos Wallgren är miljöaktivist och är aktiv inom rörelsen Extinction Rebellion Finland— Elokapina — som använder sig av civil olydnad för att få fram sitt budskap. Amos blev arresterad i Schweiz, i samband med protester, och fick inreseförbud i ett år efter det. Vi samtalar bl.a. om civil olydnad, klimaträttvisa och om hur mycket staten ska styra våra konsumtionsvanor.Följ oss på Instagram: @nyfikapoddenE-mail: nyfikapodden@gmail.comGrafik: Maria Åsvik & Elin ÅsvikMusik: Mattias Björkholm See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Join the conversation with MICE Talk 360 guest: Mike Farmer, VP, Group Travel Sales, Strategic Incentive Solutions and 2020 SITE Midwest Board Member. We all have our industry stories, but these three are special. A different kind of normal.

Join us for our first episode of Take 5 with MICE Talk 360 with Jacque Goldy, CIS, CITP and Vice President, Incentive Sales and Strategic Partnerships for MGM RESORTS INTERNATIONAL as she shares "Only in Las Vegas" Covid 19 facts and figures. You might be surprised at what you hear.

I avsnitt 156 är Jocke Wallgren från Amon Amarth gäst Veckans gäst som heter Jocke Wallgren har det fina ansvaret att spela trummor i bandet Amon Amarth. Bandet som inte bara är ett av Sveriges största utan även ett av världens största i sin genre har skördad framgång efter framgång och idag spelar utsålda arenor och fulla festivaler. Det var ett stort privilegium att få prata med Jocke om musik, trummor och om livet. Podden finns överallt där du lyssnar på dina poddar. Avsnittet presenteras i samarbete med Strongstyle Clothing. Stöd podden via Patreon eller Swish: 0704220542

Join the conversation with MICE Talk 360 guest: Jacque Goldy, CIS , CITP and Vice President, Incentive Sales and Strategic Partnerships for MGM RESORTS INTERNATIONAL shares how she was introduced to the industry she loves, the impact of Covid 19 on Las Vegas, and how, in a round-a-bout way, SITE helped her find the love of her life.  It's not just another day at the office.

On the show today we have an interview and discussion with Henning Wallgren. Henning has been in the sport a long time and started out when he lived in Norway, shooting IPSC in 1990. It is a great episode, hope you all enjoy.  Featured: Jared Fox, Jason Bradley, Henning Wallgren Our Facebook: The Hit Factor Podcast PageHenning's website: https://www.henningshop.com/default.aspx

Erika Wallgren is a military spouse, mom, educator and life coach on a journey to help others find their dream job. Listen to my interview with Erika here to here more about the Career Development Coaching she provides.

Join the conversation with MICE Talk 360 guest Freddy Muller, VP Corporate & Incentive Sales, Silversea Cruises. Listen in as Freddy shares his industry story and discusses what's on tap for the near future with Silversea.  

Join the conversation with MICE Talk 360 guest and SITE 2020 President, Jennifer Glynn. Jenn is Co-Managing Director of Ontario, Canada based Meeting Encore Ltd and Intuitive Conferences + Events. Listen in as Jenn shares her personal industry growth story and the benefits that come from getting involved in the industry.  

Join the conversation with MICE Talk 360 guest, Grant Snider, President and CEO of Meeting Escrow. Learn how not getting a job as a dog sitter opened the door to a 30+ year career, and how that led to building a company on the idea that escrow for international incentive programs, meetings, and events doesn't have to be hard when you have the right partner. I think you'll find this both interesting and informative.

Join the conversation as MICE Talk 360 guest, Alison Staley, Manager, Meeting & Incentive Sales – Western U.S. with Tourism Whistler, shares her love for her destination and how she uses that love to educate, inform and inspire others to come experience and embrace one of the more amazing destinations in North America. Member or not, you'll find this both interesting and informative.

Join the conversation as MICE Talk 360 guest, Kevin Edmunds, CIS, CITP, and Vice President, Meeting & Incentive Sales - AIC Hotel Group shares what being a member of SITE has meant to his personal development and his career. Kevin is also on the SITE International Board of Directors as Vice President, Education. Member or not, you'll find this both interesting and informative.

Join the conversation as MICE Talk 360 guest, Roxanne Kennedy, Business Development Strategist with Tourism Kamloops, shares the story of her love for the destination. She discusses the charm and opportunity it offers and how that influences the story she tells as she creates interest for others, and impacts the destinations growing share of tourism $. I've been to Kamloops, and it's worth the visit.

I Sverige finns omkring  350 000 älgar. Varje år skjuts runt 80-90 000 av dessa. Men borde det finnas mer eller mindre älg? Bör den rentav rödlistas? Åsikterna om skogens konung är starka. I det senaste avsnittet av podden reder vi ut älgfrågan med ett vetenskapligt perspektiv. Forskarna Märtha Wallgren och Johan Sonesson intervjuas av Caroline Rothpfeffer. Medverkar gör även Monica Stridsman, avhoppad ledamot i Järgarförbundets styrelse. Inslag och redigering, Lars Nylander.

Join the conversation as MICE Talk 360 guest, and SITE Foundation President, John Iannini, outlines the vital role that the Foundation plays in funding research and education that drives the growth of SITE and our industry. You'll find this both interesting and informative.

Agilitet - ett populärt ord i samband med digitalisering. Många svänger sig med uttrycket utan att riktigt ha koll på vad det innebär. Vi pratar med projektledare Marina Wallgren som har lång erfarenhet inom området. “Det är ett mindset, en kultur, lättrörlighet, att snabbt och effektivitet kunna förändra. Dynamisk utveckling istället för traditionell vattenfallsmetodik. Iterativa cykler där kunder och intressenter ger feedback vid demonstration av produktinkrement - som sedan används i nästa iteration.” Vilket värde levererar vi? Det behöver inte vara samma i början av ett projekt, som i slutet! OM AVSNITTETMålgrupp: kontorsfolk, användare, nya processägare, juniora projektledare, beställareLär dig: agile, agila processer, digitalisering i praktiken, värdefokusering, effekthemtagning Den agila metoden är framgångsrik i projekt då den är adaptiv, den ger tidig och kontinuerlig återkoppling, den underlättar styrning och ger mätbar avkastning på investeringar. Scrum och Kanban är de vanligaste metoderna, men även SAFe, DevOps, Extreme Programming är agila i sin karaktär. När du väljer metod: ställ frågan Varför och Hur du ska använda den. En gemensamma nämnare är att i agila projekt skapar man självorganiserande team, med mindre uppdelning mellan kompetenser. För att det ska fungera krävs att man har med sig, förankrar metoden hos ledning och stakeholders. Marina ger oss exempel på när agilitet fungerar och inte fungerar - och vad som krävs för att lyckas! Marina Wallgren, Jonas Jaani (18:25) Mer länkar: Marina på LinkedIn Kommande PMI-seminarium i Helsingborg (2019-10-09) Scrum -en introduktion. Jonas Bolldén (avsnitt 57) Extramaterial: Scrum - en introduktion Hemligheten bakom effektiv mjukvarutestning (avsnitt 72) Test i en agile miljö (avsnitt 41) Ledarskap - fram med visionen och kommunikationen (avsnitt 27) EFFEKTEN är digitaliseringens podcast. Finns där du hittar dina övriga poddar (tex Spotify). Vill du vara med eller känner du någon som vill vara med i podden? Kontakta oss via LinkedIn, Facebook eller e-post: info(a)effekten.se 

Join the conversation as MICE Talk 360 guest, Sam Stanton, challenges conventional "Out of the box" thinking as he explains the Thinkers Society and how it helps you make better decisions and make them faster.

Join the conversation and meet a couple of the key players in SITE's global effort to tell our story.

Join us for a conversation about child sexual exploitation and how one person can have a major positive impact on someone's life.

Join us for a conversation about wellness and how simple things can have a major positive impact on our health and our lives.   

Jocke Wallgren (Amon Amarth). Andrew and Jocke have a chat ahead of the release of the new album for 2019 from Amon Amarth, Berserker.

Guest : Jocke Wallgren from AMON AMARTHMetal, Rock and Everything noisy from Australia and around the world!This episode Hosted by Nev Pearce and James Schmidtwww.facebook.com/EverblackmediaThe Everblack Metal Podcast is proudly supported by :RW Promotion : www.rwpromotion.com.auBlacklight Art & Design : www.blacklightad.com.au

Guest : Jocke Wallgren from AMON AMARTHMetal, Rock and Everything noisy from Australia and around the world!This episode Hosted by Nev Pearce and James Schmidtwww.facebook.com/EverblackmediaThe Everblack Metal Podcast is proudly supported by :RW Promotion : www.rwpromotion.com.auBlacklight Art & Design : www.blacklightad.com.au

Kan man bara byta liv? Kan man en dag bara bestämma sig, för att jag vill göra något helt annat, också bara göra det? Vad innebär det att följa hjärtat? Vad håller oss tillbaka? I dagens avsnitt möter jag Ulf Wallgren, Sveriges största nyhetsankare, som en dag bestämde sig för att gå en helt ny bana livet. Att lyssna på sin kropp och följa sitt hjärta. Han gav karriärbytet ett nytt ansikte. Idag pratar vi om hur det gick till, varför, och hur livet ser ut idag. Också gör vi en liten framtidsblick och ser in i framtiden 20 år från nu! Gäst : Ulf Wallgren

Välkommen till Drömmen om Målajords avsnitt 59, där du får möta Ulf Wallgren, mannen vars ansikte vi har varit vana att se i teverutan i otaliga nyhetssändningar. För ett år sedan bytte han ut kostymen mot mjukare kläder, och idag jobbar han som yogainstruktör på Mediyogainstitutet (http://mediyogainstitutet.se/) i Stockholm - och som gästlärare och föreläsare runtom i landet. I samtalet får du ta del av Ulfs spännande livsresa från barndomens upptäckt av ordens magi till dagens arbete med att hjälpa andra att lära sig lyssna på såväl kropp som själ. Vi pratar bland mycket annat om den inre kritikern, vikten av långsiktighet, stress och återhämtning, tid och lyssnande.

I avsnitt 29 får vi höra ett par presentationer från föreningen Skogens höstexkursion. Märtha Wallgren från Skogforsk, berättar om betesskador på tallen och Jan Stenlid från SLU berättar om en svampsjukdom på tallen som heter Diplodia. Bosse berättar också hur han gör när han markbereder.

"Har du tid att ha riktiga samtal med dina kollegor och din chef? Hinner ni vända och vrida på tankar och åsikter? Vilka verktyg för återhämtning har ni för att hålla ett helt yrkesliv? Och vad händer med en verksamhet som alltid räknar minuter? Många tankeställare levereras i intervjun med Ulf Wallgren, nyhetsankaret som efter 37 år inom public service sa tack och hej till tempot i nyhetsrummet och i stället hittade hem i mediyogan. Idag lär han bland annat sina gamla SVT-kollegor att andas, trots deadlines. Prestationspodden 37 – om efterspinn och ställtid. Om morgondagens arbetsplatser. Om vikten av att ibland ha tråkigt, men också att följa lusten. Framförallt om mod att våga kliva ur sitt fack. Vem vet vilka fantastiska möjligheter som väntar runt hörnet?" #karriärbyte #stress #mediyoga

Trettonde söndagen efter trefaldighet får podden besök av församlingens nya präst Linda Wallgren. Vi pratar om hämndbegär och att vända andra kinden till utan att bli överkörd.

Eläköön porvarit! Vasemmisto on kuollut! Vasemmistolaisuus on enää pienen helsinkiläisen kulttuurieliitin kimppakivaa, nostalginen harrastus haudan partaalla hoippuvan Agit Propin tahdissa. Filosofi Francis Fukuyama puhui ”historian lopusta”. Myös politiikka on kuollut. Vaihtoehtoja ei enää ole. On vain yhtä suurta porvariutta. Eläköön sinivalkoinen Suomi! Punavihreässä kuplassa Kai Sadinmaan kanssa vaalianalyysiä tekemässä kirjailija Antti Nylén ja filosofi Thomas Wallgren.

Eduskuntavaalit ovat pian ovella. Missä mennään ja mitä vaaleista jää käteen? Kai Sadinmaan vieraana filosofi, eduskuntavaaliehdokas Thomas Wallgren (sd.). Lisäksi ohjelmassa ovat mukana Vasemmistoliiton ehdokkaat, kaupunginvaltuutettu Sami ”Frank” Muttilainen ja varavaltuutettu Riku Ahola.

Robotisaatio: uhka vai mahdollisuus hoivapalveluissa? Robotit ovat tuttuja teollisuudesta mutta nyt niitä otetaan käyttöön kunnissa hoiva- ja hoitopalveluissa. Syrjäyttävätkö robotit ihmiset hoitotyössä? Ovatko työpaikat uhattuna? Tuoko robottien käyttö taloudellisia säästöjä kuntiin? Filosofi ja kaupunginvaltuutettu Thomas Wallgren (Sdp) teki viime viikolla valtuustoaloitteen, jossa ehdotetaan vastuullisen robotisaatio-ohjelman tekemistä Helsingissä. Hänen kanssa keskustellaan siitä, milloin robotteja voidaan käyttää hyvinvointipalveluissa ja miten tekniikkaa tuodaan eettisellä tavalla hoivatyön tueksi.

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