Audition begins when widower Shigeharu Aoyama (Ryo Ishibashi) and his friend decide to host a fake audition to get Shigeharu a new wife. The two lie and tell the actresses that they are casting the lead in a film. All of the women seem the same, but then Asami Yamazaki (Eihi Shiina) walks in the room, and everything changes. The two seemingly fall in love almost immediately. It’s a fascinating blending of genres, because a good chunk of this movie plays like a genuine romance. That is, up until the moment when we see Asami at home, looking nearly catatonic, as she sits motionless by the phone, a large cloth bag sitting in the background. Suddenly, the phone rings, and everything in the frame springs to life. The bag rolls ferociously back and forth behind an inanimate Asami as a sly smile creeps up the side of her face. By revealing that Asami is holding a hostage in her home, we now know that Shigeharu is not the only one keeping a secret. Asami has punished men before who claimed to love her and only used her, and it’s only a matter of time before Shigeharu gets his comeuppance. In Takashi Miike’s most feminist movie to date, Asami refuses to fall prey to Shigeharu’s games, as her past trauma resurface and she morphs into a modern-day femme fatale. Although mainly noted for its influence on the “torture porn” genre, inspiring filmmakers like Eli Roth, James Wan, and the Soska sisters, Audition also set a precedent for “woman hell-bent on revenge” films, capitalizing on the final girls who came before it, and setting the standard for what to expect from vixens for years to come. —KC
A new chair will make it far easier to get her ready for sleep. “She would be able to put her feet up and down when she wants, and to lie back when she wants — all that.”
A Rochester man is charged in a “horrific” sex assault involving two girls over six years is in custody. Heriberto Natividad Campos, 36, faces two counts each of first- and second-degree criminal sexual conduct. Campos posted $75,000 bond then is picked up by U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement. … A pet turtle made a quick getaway. Mackenzie Carter is offering a $200 reward for the return of Tortellini, her Russian tortoise, who has a brown and tan shell and is a picky eater. He was found about a month and a half later, partially burrowed in a garden about three blocks away.
Police learned through the investigation that an ongoing feud between members of the Wheels of Soul and the Sin City Deciples seemed to explode after Taylor’s shooting in Gary.
Smith was, first and foremost, a country fan, and she never stopped relating to the working people for whom country music was originally made. The farmer’s daughter moved from North Carolina to Nashville in the 1960s when she fell in love with Bill Monroe and inspired him to write “Walk Softly on This Heart of Mine.” That relationship didn’t last, but her love affair with Nashville sure did.
After having found all three pieces of the will, you will have to place it in a safe that is inside a building right next to the Safe House in the Southwark District.
This shiatsu massager provides deep-penetrating 3D nodes to ease tired feet, prompt relaxation, and help with Plantar Fasciitis or heel spurs. It’s even got a heat function and uses reflexology pressure points to deliver the best stress and tension relief to aching feet. It’s easy to work with only a push of a button, too.
The product, yet without a name, was just known then as Mercer mesh and the machine which produced it had been built by the progressive managing director of Blackburn Pioneer Mill Co, in his workshop, to his own design.
References: 1. Scherberger J. Navigating the intersection where healthcare laundry and infection prevention meet. Infect Control Today, Sept. 5, 2017.
More information: Emily Gottenborg et al, You Can’t Have It All: The Experience of Academic Hospitalists During Pregnancy, Parental Leave, and Return to Work, Journal of Hospital Medicine (2018). DOI: 10.12788/jhm.3076
The Trump Administration recognizes the importance of securing our place as the world’s innovation leader for generations to come. Today, the Administration is releasing a plan to help secure that future through STEM education: Charting a Course for Success: America’s Strategy for STEM Education.
Bush’s appointments to the Supreme Court were less sure-handed. In 1990, he named a New Hampshire judge, David Souter, to fill the seat of retiring liberal giant William J. Brennan. Believing that he was getting a pragmatic conservative, Bush was disappointed to see Souter move steadily to the left during his 20 terms on the high court. In 1991, Bush promoted federal appeals court Judge Clarence Thomas to succeed Thurgood Marshall and become the second African-American to serve on the court. Many blacks were offended by the appointment of a stern conservative to take Marshall’s seat, and Thomas’s confirmation hearings were brutally divisive. Not only were Thomas’s intelligence impugned and his motives questioned; the televised confrontation culminated with accusations that Thomas sexually harassed a former employee, Anita Hill. Though he was narrowly confirmed, the episode left a sour cloud over Thomas that has never entirely lifted.
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