From michael at intrafi.com  Wed Aug  4 10:04:55 2004
From: michael at intrafi.com (michael@intrafi.com)
Date: Wed Aug  4 10:05:10 2004
Subject: [Mb-hair] NYTimes.com Article: Trying to Make the Pen as Mighty as
	the Sword 
Message-ID: <20040804170455.1173535051@web38t.prvt.nytimes.com>

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August 4, 2004
 By BRUCE WEBER 



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From michael at intrafi.com  Thu Aug  5 10:21:15 2004
From: michael at intrafi.com (michael@intrafi.com)
Date: Thu Aug  5 10:21:24 2004
Subject: [Mb-hair] NYTimes.com Article: Chords for Change 
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Chords for Change

August 5, 2004
 By BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN 



 

A nation's artists and musicians have a particular place in
its social and political life. Over the years I've tried to
think long and hard about what it means to be American:
about the distinctive identity and position we have in the
world, and how that position is best carried. I've tried to
write songs that speak to our pride and criticize our
failures. 

These questions are at the heart of this election: who we
are, what we stand for, why we fight. Personally, for the
last 25 years I have always stayed one step away from
partisan politics. Instead, I have been partisan about a
set of ideals: economic justice, civil rights, a humane
foreign policy, freedom and a decent life for all of our
citizens. This year, however, for many of us the stakes
have risen too high to sit this election out. 

Through my work, I've always tried to ask hard questions.
Why is it that the wealthiest nation in the world finds it
so hard to keep its promise and faith with its weakest
citizens? Why do we continue to find it so difficult to see
beyond the veil of race? How do we conduct ourselves during
difficult times without killing the things we hold dear?
Why does the fulfillment of our promise as a people always
seem to be just within grasp yet forever out of reach? 

I don't think John Kerry and John Edwards have all the
answers. I do believe they are sincerely interested in
asking the right questions and working their way toward
honest solutions. They understand that we need an
administration that places a priority on fairness,
curiosity, openness, humility, concern for all America's
citizens, courage and faith. 

People have different notions of these values, and they
live them out in different ways. I've tried to sing about
some of them in my songs. But I have my own ideas about
what they mean, too. That is why I plan to join with many
fellow artists, including the Dave Matthews Band, Pearl
Jam, R.E.M., the Dixie Chicks, Jurassic 5, James Taylor and
Jackson Browne, in touring the country this October. We
will be performing under the umbrella of a new group called
Vote for Change. Our goal is to change the direction of the
government and change the current administration come
November. 

Like many others, in the aftermath of 9/11, I felt the
country's unity. I don't remember anything quite like it. I
supported the decision to enter Afghanistan and I hoped
that the seriousness of the times would bring forth
strength, humility and wisdom in our leaders. Instead, we
dived headlong into an unnecessary war in Iraq, offering up
the lives of our young men and women under circumstances
that are now discredited. We ran record deficits, while
simultaneously cutting and squeezing services like
afterschool programs. We granted tax cuts to the richest 1
percent (corporate bigwigs, well-to-do guitar players),
increasing the division of wealth that threatens to destroy
our social contract with one another and render mute the
promise of "one nation indivisible." 

It is through the truthful exercising of the best of human
qualities - respect for others, honesty about ourselves,
faith in our ideals - that we come to life in God's eyes.
It is how our soul, as a nation and as individuals, is
revealed. Our American government has strayed too far from
American values. It is time to move forward. The country we
carry in our hearts is waiting. 

Bruce Springsteen is a writer and performer.


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From lbirdie at hotmail.com  Thu Aug  5 11:42:09 2004
From: lbirdie at hotmail.com (Little Birdie)
Date: Thu Aug  5 11:42:14 2004
Subject: [Mb-hair] FW:Exhibit aims to bring home human costs of Iraq conflict
Message-ID: <BAY9-F44BCVgYlxmO470002f75a@hotmail.com>

I wonder what made them choose the title for this exhibit?

"Our eyes are open, our eyes are open....Wide, wide, wide........"

Nina

The Hair Archives
http://www.michaelbutler.com/hair/holding/Hair.html


Daily Hampshire Gazette
Exhibit aims to bring home human costs of Iraq conflict
By NICK GRABBE Staff Writer


AMHERST - Kevin English of Amherst was close to tears as he walked past 908 
pairs of black combat boots, each bearing the name of a U.S. soldier killed 
in Iraq.

I find it seriously moving, said English, a Vietnam veteran. ''It's not a 
protest; it's a fitting memorial for those who have died.''

The exhibit on the town common Tuesday also included 1,000 pairs of shoes 
placed in concentric circles, a memorial to Iraqi civilians killed in the 
war. Called ''Eyes Wide Open,'' the exhibit also included a 10-minute video 
on justifications for the war, photographs of Iraqi civilians, and a 
sculpture of 10,000 bullets molded into a plowshare, a biblical reference 
symbolizing peace.

Elaine Mishkind of Amherst said the combat boots, arrayed in 31 rows of 29 
boots each, resembled a graveyard. ''It puts a human face on the war,'' she 
said.

The exhibit is scheduled to be at the Easthampton Library Thursday from 8 
a.m. to 7 p.m. and at St. Mary's Church in Northampton Monday from noon to 
8:30 p.m.

A Belchertown couple whose son committed suicide six weeks ago, about a year 
after returning from Iraq, addressed about 200 people on the Amherst common 
Tuesday night. They added his boots to the display.

''The horrific evils of war ate away at his humanity,'' said Kevin Lucey. He 
called his son Jeffrey ''an uncounted casualty of the war'' and said there 
are many like him.

''He extended his hand for help, but he didn't reach soon enough or far 
enough,'' he said. ''These boots may represent a number or a statistic, but 
to us they represent souls, smiles, laughter, tears, hopes and dreams of 
lives ended far too soon, of lives unfulfilled.''

Joyce Lucey said the boots show the emotional cost of war. She said many 
soldiers come home with demons that society must confront.

Her son was not prepared for the horrors of war, she said. ''His humanity 
was in conflict with what he had to do,'' she said.

His sisters, Kelly and Debbie, read from their brother's letters from Iraq. 
A hat Jeffrey Lucey wore there was affixed to a display of photographs 
showing him at different stages of his life, including his time in Iraq.

Karen Hurd of Florence, the mother of a soldier who returned from Iraq in 
February, read a letter he wrote shortly after his captain was killed. ''As 
we look at war, we must remember that there are no winners,'' she said.

Al Miller of Leverett, a Vietnam veteran, said all people who die in war 
send out vibrations to those who knew them.

''I'm afraid to tell you what the cost of war is and that it never goes away 
and we can't seem to change the direction,'' he said.

Nick Grabbe can be reached at ngrabbe@gazettenet.com.
Copyright Daily Hamshire Gazette

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From michael at michaelbutler.com  Thu Aug  5 13:54:06 2004
From: michael at michaelbutler.com (Michael Butler)
Date: Thu Aug  5 13:51:21 2004
Subject: [Mb-hair] Nina's about Amherst Exhibit
In-Reply-To: <BAY9-F44BCVgYlxmO470002f75a@hotmail.com>
Message-ID: <BD37EC7E.18303%michael@michaelbutler.com>

Thanks, sending on
Michael

> I wonder what made them choose the title for this exhibit?
> 
> "Our eyes are open, our eyes are open....Wide, wide, wide........"
> 
> Nina
> 
> The Hair Archives
> http://www.michaelbutler.com/hair/holding/Hair.html
> 
> 
> Daily Hampshire Gazette
> Exhibit aims to bring home human costs of Iraq conflict
> By NICK GRABBE Staff Writer
> 
> 
> AMHERST - Kevin English of Amherst was close to tears as he walked past 908
> pairs of black combat boots, each bearing the name of a U.S. soldier killed
> in Iraq.
> 
> I find it seriously moving, said English, a Vietnam veteran. ''It's not a
> protest; it's a fitting memorial for those who have died.''
> 
> The exhibit on the town common Tuesday also included 1,000 pairs of shoes
> placed in concentric circles, a memorial to Iraqi civilians killed in the
> war. Called ''Eyes Wide Open,'' the exhibit also included a 10-minute video
> on justifications for the war, photographs of Iraqi civilians, and a
> sculpture of 10,000 bullets molded into a plowshare, a biblical reference
> symbolizing peace.
> 
> Elaine Mishkind of Amherst said the combat boots, arrayed in 31 rows of 29
> boots each, resembled a graveyard. ''It puts a human face on the war,'' she
> said.
> 
> The exhibit is scheduled to be at the Easthampton Library Thursday from 8
> a.m. to 7 p.m. and at St. Mary's Church in Northampton Monday from noon to
> 8:30 p.m.
> 
> A Belchertown couple whose son committed suicide six weeks ago, about a year
> after returning from Iraq, addressed about 200 people on the Amherst common
> Tuesday night. They added his boots to the display.
> 
> ''The horrific evils of war ate away at his humanity,'' said Kevin Lucey. He
> called his son Jeffrey ''an uncounted casualty of the war'' and said there
> are many like him.
> 
> ''He extended his hand for help, but he didn't reach soon enough or far
> enough,'' he said. ''These boots may represent a number or a statistic, but
> to us they represent souls, smiles, laughter, tears, hopes and dreams of
> lives ended far too soon, of lives unfulfilled.''
> 
> Joyce Lucey said the boots show the emotional cost of war. She said many
> soldiers come home with demons that society must confront.
> 
> Her son was not prepared for the horrors of war, she said. ''His humanity
> was in conflict with what he had to do,'' she said.
> 
> His sisters, Kelly and Debbie, read from their brother's letters from Iraq.
> A hat Jeffrey Lucey wore there was affixed to a display of photographs
> showing him at different stages of his life, including his time in Iraq.
> 
> Karen Hurd of Florence, the mother of a soldier who returned from Iraq in
> February, read a letter he wrote shortly after his captain was killed. ''As
> we look at war, we must remember that there are no winners,'' she said.
> 
> Al Miller of Leverett, a Vietnam veteran, said all people who die in war
> send out vibrations to those who knew them.
> 
> ''I'm afraid to tell you what the cost of war is and that it never goes away
> and we can't seem to change the direction,'' he said.
> 
> Nick Grabbe can be reached at ngrabbe@gazettenet.com.
> Copyright Daily Hamshire Gazette
> 
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From goodhairdays at yahoo.com  Thu Aug  5 18:29:29 2004
From: goodhairdays at yahoo.com (Jonathon Johnson)
Date: Thu Aug  5 18:29:37 2004
Subject: [Mb-hair] New Hair Production in Los Angeles (Silver Lake)
Message-ID: <20040806012929.77797.qmail@web53402.mail.yahoo.com>

Hello Tribe,
 
Here's our chance for a small Southern California Be-In. There's a new Hair tribe in the Silver Lake area of Los Angeles that could use our love and support! A super review is pasted below for you which includes information on reserving tickets.
 
On Saturday August 14th the Associate Producer is arranging a "Hair Party" night. There will be a reserved section for Hair Alumni and depending on how many people reserve, there will be some sort of discount. For more information, call 1-323-667-0955 and say you want to reserve tickets for the 8/14/04 evening performance as part of the "Hair Party."
 
I will be out of town until August 11th but if you have any questions in the meantime, 
please email Raymond Donahey the Associate Producer of the production at; tilvenelf@yahoo.com. 

 
Peace, Love and Blessings ~ Jonathon
 
 
HAIR
  With no end in sight to the U.S. conflict in Iraq, James Rado and Gerome Ragni's 1967 anti-war, anti-establishment rock musical resonates loudly once again. In large part, that's due to the first-rate songs, with catchy melodies by Galt MacDermot and playful/pensive lyrics by Rado and Ragni. The script, marginally updated by Rado, is a time capsule of those radically exciting times when American youth was first exposed to psychedelic drugs, acid rock, Eastern religion, sexual freedom and alternative lifestyles. Ragni and Rado's hairy tribe hang out in a park in Greenwich Village staging love-ins and taking drugs that George Berger (a magnetic Jonathan Zenz) dispenses from his pouch. While the others burn their draft cards at a be-in, restless dreamer Claude (René Guerrero) vacillates over whether or not to show up for service, but longs for something more than the life of a dropout. Director Peter Finlayson captures both the comedy and tragedy of Claude's dilemma in a solid
 production brimming with strong singers, notably Sarah Marina Ali and Ana Ortiz. The cast mostly looks and dresses the part, however some of the men's wigs, including a couple of mullets, don't fit the era. Actor-choreographer Atticus Batacan makes the most of the cramped space in fluid dance numbers involving the entire 20-member cast. Knightsbridge Theater, 1944 Riverside Dr., Silver Lake; Sat., 8 p.m.; Sun., 3 p.m.; thru Sept. 18. (323) 667-0955. Written 08/05/2004 (Miriam Jacobson)

 


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From michael at michaelbutler.com  Thu Aug  5 18:41:52 2004
From: michael at michaelbutler.com (Michael Butler)
Date: Thu Aug  5 18:38:57 2004
Subject: [Mb-hair] New Hair Production in Los Angeles (Silver Lake)
In-Reply-To: <20040806012929.77797.qmail@web53402.mail.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <BD382FF0.18324%michael@michaelbutler.com>

What is the exact address?
Michael

> Hello Tribe,
> 
> Here's our chance for a small Southern California Be-In. There's a new Hair
> tribe in the Silver Lake area of Los Angeles that could use our love and
> support! A super review is pasted below for you which includes information on
> reserving tickets.
> 
> On Saturday August 14th the Associate Producer is arranging a "Hair Party"
> night. There will be a reserved section for Hair Alumni and depending on how
> many people reserve, there will be some sort of discount. For more
> information, call 1-323-667-0955 and say you want to reserve tickets for the
> 8/14/04 evening performance as part of the "Hair Party."
> 
> I will be out of town until August 11th but if you have any questions in the
> meantime, 
> please email Raymond Donahey the Associate Producer of the production at;
> tilvenelf@yahoo.com.
> 
> 
> Peace, Love and Blessings ~ Jonathon
> 
> 
> HAIR
> With no end in sight to the U.S. conflict in Iraq, James Rado and Gerome
> Ragni's 1967 anti-war, anti-establishment rock musical resonates loudly once
> again. In large part, that's due to the first-rate songs, with catchy melodies
> by Galt MacDermot and playful/pensive lyrics by Rado and Ragni. The script,
> marginally updated by Rado, is a time capsule of those radically exciting
> times when American youth was first exposed to psychedelic drugs, acid rock,
> Eastern religion, sexual freedom and alternative lifestyles. Ragni and Rado's
> hairy tribe hang out in a park in Greenwich Village staging love-ins and
> taking drugs that George Berger (a magnetic Jonathan Zenz) dispenses from his
> pouch. While the others burn their draft cards at a be-in, restless dreamer
> Claude (Ren? Guerrero) vacillates over whether or not to show up for service,
> but longs for something more than the life of a dropout. Director Peter
> Finlayson captures both the comedy and tragedy of Claude's dilemma in a solid
> production brimming with strong singers, notably Sarah Marina Ali and Ana
> Ortiz. The cast mostly looks and dresses the part, however some of the men's
> wigs, including a couple of mullets, don't fit the era. Actor-choreographer
> Atticus Batacan makes the most of the cramped space in fluid dance numbers
> involving the entire 20-member cast. Knightsbridge Theater, 1944 Riverside
> Dr., Silver Lake; Sat., 8 p.m.; Sun., 3 p.m.; thru Sept. 18. (323) 667-0955.
> Written 08/05/2004 (Miriam Jacobson)
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Good HAIR Days: A Personal Journey with the American Tribal Love-Rock Musical
> HAIR, by Jonathon Johnson. For more information on the book and how to order
> it, visit www.goodhairdays.net. Visit our other websites at www.uversa.net and
> www.kidstherapyassociates.com.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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From michael at michaelbutler.com  Thu Aug  5 18:43:24 2004
From: michael at michaelbutler.com (Michael Butler)
Date: Thu Aug  5 18:40:39 2004
Subject: [Mb-hair] New Hair Production in Los Angeles (Silver Lake)
In-Reply-To: <20040806012929.77797.qmail@web53402.mail.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <BD38304C.18325%michael@michaelbutler.com>

Sorry, saw the address on the revue
Michael
> Hello Tribe,
> 
> Here's our chance for a small Southern California Be-In. There's a new Hair
> tribe in the Silver Lake area of Los Angeles that could use our love and
> support! A super review is pasted below for you which includes information on
> reserving tickets.
> 
> On Saturday August 14th the Associate Producer is arranging a "Hair Party"
> night. There will be a reserved section for Hair Alumni and depending on how
> many people reserve, there will be some sort of discount. For more
> information, call 1-323-667-0955 and say you want to reserve tickets for the
> 8/14/04 evening performance as part of the "Hair Party."
> 
> I will be out of town until August 11th but if you have any questions in the
> meantime, 
> please email Raymond Donahey the Associate Producer of the production at;
> tilvenelf@yahoo.com.
> 
> 
> Peace, Love and Blessings ~ Jonathon
> 
> 
> HAIR
> With no end in sight to the U.S. conflict in Iraq, James Rado and Gerome
> Ragni's 1967 anti-war, anti-establishment rock musical resonates loudly once
> again. In large part, that's due to the first-rate songs, with catchy melodies
> by Galt MacDermot and playful/pensive lyrics by Rado and Ragni. The script,
> marginally updated by Rado, is a time capsule of those radically exciting
> times when American youth was first exposed to psychedelic drugs, acid rock,
> Eastern religion, sexual freedom and alternative lifestyles. Ragni and Rado's
> hairy tribe hang out in a park in Greenwich Village staging love-ins and
> taking drugs that George Berger (a magnetic Jonathan Zenz) dispenses from his
> pouch. While the others burn their draft cards at a be-in, restless dreamer
> Claude (Ren? Guerrero) vacillates over whether or not to show up for service,
> but longs for something more than the life of a dropout. Director Peter
> Finlayson captures both the comedy and tragedy of Claude's dilemma in a solid
> production brimming with strong singers, notably Sarah Marina Ali and Ana
> Ortiz. The cast mostly looks and dresses the part, however some of the men's
> wigs, including a couple of mullets, don't fit the era. Actor-choreographer
> Atticus Batacan makes the most of the cramped space in fluid dance numbers
> involving the entire 20-member cast. Knightsbridge Theater, 1944 Riverside
> Dr., Silver Lake; Sat., 8 p.m.; Sun., 3 p.m.; thru Sept. 18. (323) 667-0955.
> Written 08/05/2004 (Miriam Jacobson)
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Good HAIR Days: A Personal Journey with the American Tribal Love-Rock Musical
> HAIR, by Jonathon Johnson. For more information on the book and how to order
> it, visit www.goodhairdays.net. Visit our other websites at www.uversa.net and
> www.kidstherapyassociates.com.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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From tinarojas at adelphia.net  Fri Aug  6 00:07:22 2004
From: tinarojas at adelphia.net (tina)
Date: Fri Aug  6 05:42:13 2004
Subject: [Mb-hair] FW:Exhibit aims to bring home human costs of Iraq
	conflict
References: <20040805205115.OYIH9448.mta6.adelphia.net@avocet.mail.pas.earthlink.net>
Message-ID: <006501c47b84$056ac780$b9eea145@everton>

Michael, I so remember Hair....remember I am older then every
remembers...and my sweet wonderful father forgets....I will turn 50 next
June as my father just does not recall my age..but hey if I were him I
wouldn't either...my father looks so fantastic and usually go to visit him
and Sandra every summer...this summer have not been able to get there for
business reasons...but hope to late summer early fall....I have a great time
with dad my week in DC and Virginia!...he has an awesome wonderful away
place in alittle small town about 50 minutes from Dulles airport..you should
go visit him..he is my touch stone and I enjoy each and every minute with
him...I am in the middle of selling 24 units of a new construction condo
being built on Coldwater Canyon in Studio City and my grand opening is not
until Sept. 11th, so I have not been able to do my yearly trip to spend with
dad..but hoping that the units sell fast and I can get out there to be with
him for at least a week as usual...before the dead of winter hits...Have you
met his woman Sandra..she is wonderful and he seems to be the happiest I
have ever seem my father ever.....she appears to be the woman for him...and
they have a great life together in Virginia...I like her alot and am so
happy for dad!.....There sense of humor is complete and they seem so very
connected!..It is great to see!....Oh Michael light years away from the
Terri days.....and those days are a horse of a different color are they
not!.....hope to see you soon, Tina
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Little Birdie" <lbirdie@hotmail.com>
To: <mb-hair@islandlists.com>
Sent: Thursday, August 05, 2004 11:42 AM
Subject: [Mb-hair] FW:Exhibit aims to bring home human costs of Iraq
conflict


> I wonder what made them choose the title for this exhibit?
>
> "Our eyes are open, our eyes are open....Wide, wide, wide........"
>
> Nina
>
> The Hair Archives
> http://www.michaelbutler.com/hair/holding/Hair.html
>
>
> Daily Hampshire Gazette
> Exhibit aims to bring home human costs of Iraq conflict
> By NICK GRABBE Staff Writer
>
>
> AMHERST - Kevin English of Amherst was close to tears as he walked past
908
> pairs of black combat boots, each bearing the name of a U.S. soldier
killed
> in Iraq.
>
> I find it seriously moving, said English, a Vietnam veteran. ''It's not a
> protest; it's a fitting memorial for those who have died.''
>
> The exhibit on the town common Tuesday also included 1,000 pairs of shoes
> placed in concentric circles, a memorial to Iraqi civilians killed in the
> war. Called ''Eyes Wide Open,'' the exhibit also included a 10-minute
video
> on justifications for the war, photographs of Iraqi civilians, and a
> sculpture of 10,000 bullets molded into a plowshare, a biblical reference
> symbolizing peace.
>
> Elaine Mishkind of Amherst said the combat boots, arrayed in 31 rows of 29
> boots each, resembled a graveyard. ''It puts a human face on the war,''
she
> said.
>
> The exhibit is scheduled to be at the Easthampton Library Thursday from 8
> a.m. to 7 p.m. and at St. Mary's Church in Northampton Monday from noon to
> 8:30 p.m.
>
> A Belchertown couple whose son committed suicide six weeks ago, about a
year
> after returning from Iraq, addressed about 200 people on the Amherst
common
> Tuesday night. They added his boots to the display.
>
> ''The horrific evils of war ate away at his humanity,'' said Kevin Lucey.
He
> called his son Jeffrey ''an uncounted casualty of the war'' and said there
> are many like him.
>
> ''He extended his hand for help, but he didn't reach soon enough or far
> enough,'' he said. ''These boots may represent a number or a statistic,
but
> to us they represent souls, smiles, laughter, tears, hopes and dreams of
> lives ended far too soon, of lives unfulfilled.''
>
> Joyce Lucey said the boots show the emotional cost of war. She said many
> soldiers come home with demons that society must confront.
>
> Her son was not prepared for the horrors of war, she said. ''His humanity
> was in conflict with what he had to do,'' she said.
>
> His sisters, Kelly and Debbie, read from their brother's letters from
Iraq.
> A hat Jeffrey Lucey wore there was affixed to a display of photographs
> showing him at different stages of his life, including his time in Iraq.
>
> Karen Hurd of Florence, the mother of a soldier who returned from Iraq in
> February, read a letter he wrote shortly after his captain was killed.
''As
> we look at war, we must remember that there are no winners,'' she said.
>
> Al Miller of Leverett, a Vietnam veteran, said all people who die in war
> send out vibrations to those who knew them.
>
> ''I'm afraid to tell you what the cost of war is and that it never goes
away
> and we can't seem to change the direction,'' he said.
>
> Nick Grabbe can be reached at ngrabbe@gazettenet.com.
> Copyright Daily Hamshire Gazette
>
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From michael at michaelbutler.com  Fri Aug  6 12:45:48 2004
From: michael at michaelbutler.com (Michael Butler)
Date: Fri Aug  6 12:43:01 2004
Subject: [Mb-hair] FW:Exhibit aims to bring home human costs of Iraq
	conflict
In-Reply-To: <006501c47b84$056ac780$b9eea145@everton>
Message-ID: <BD392DFC.18373%michael@michaelbutler.com>

Tina,
Yes, another age and great memories. We were very lucky to be in such times.
I miss your Dad and enjoy every time we are together. I have not met his
lady. She sounds terrific.
Your condos sound terrific are the on Coldwater itself?
I do look forward to seeing you again.
Abrazos
Michael

> Michael, I so remember Hair....remember I am older then every
> remembers...and my sweet wonderful father forgets....I will turn 50 next
> June as my father just does not recall my age..but hey if I were him I
> wouldn't either...my father looks so fantastic and usually go to visit him
> and Sandra every summer...this summer have not been able to get there for
> business reasons...but hope to late summer early fall....I have a great time
> with dad my week in DC and Virginia!...he has an awesome wonderful away
> place in alittle small town about 50 minutes from Dulles airport..you should
> go visit him..he is my touch stone and I enjoy each and every minute with
> him...I am in the middle of selling 24 units of a new construction condo
> being built on Coldwater Canyon in Studio City and my grand opening is not
> until Sept. 11th, so I have not been able to do my yearly trip to spend with
> dad..but hoping that the units sell fast and I can get out there to be with
> him for at least a week as usual...before the dead of winter hits...Have you
> met his woman Sandra..she is wonderful and he seems to be the happiest I
> have ever seem my father ever.....she appears to be the woman for him...and
> they have a great life together in Virginia...I like her alot and am so
> happy for dad!.....There sense of humor is complete and they seem so very
> connected!..It is great to see!....Oh Michael light years away from the
> Terri days.....and those days are a horse of a different color are they
> not!.....hope to see you soon, Tina
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Little Birdie" <lbirdie@hotmail.com>
> To: <mb-hair@islandlists.com>
> Sent: Thursday, August 05, 2004 11:42 AM
> Subject: [Mb-hair] FW:Exhibit aims to bring home human costs of Iraq
> conflict
> 
> 
>> I wonder what made them choose the title for this exhibit?
>> 
>> "Our eyes are open, our eyes are open....Wide, wide, wide........"
>> 
>> Nina
>> 
>> The Hair Archives
>> http://www.michaelbutler.com/hair/holding/Hair.html
>> 
>> 
>> Daily Hampshire Gazette
>> Exhibit aims to bring home human costs of Iraq conflict
>> By NICK GRABBE Staff Writer
>> 
>> 
>> AMHERST - Kevin English of Amherst was close to tears as he walked past
> 908
>> pairs of black combat boots, each bearing the name of a U.S. soldier
> killed
>> in Iraq.
>> 
>> I find it seriously moving, said English, a Vietnam veteran. ''It's not a
>> protest; it's a fitting memorial for those who have died.''
>> 
>> The exhibit on the town common Tuesday also included 1,000 pairs of shoes
>> placed in concentric circles, a memorial to Iraqi civilians killed in the
>> war. Called ''Eyes Wide Open,'' the exhibit also included a 10-minute
> video
>> on justifications for the war, photographs of Iraqi civilians, and a
>> sculpture of 10,000 bullets molded into a plowshare, a biblical reference
>> symbolizing peace.
>> 
>> Elaine Mishkind of Amherst said the combat boots, arrayed in 31 rows of 29
>> boots each, resembled a graveyard. ''It puts a human face on the war,''
> she
>> said.
>> 
>> The exhibit is scheduled to be at the Easthampton Library Thursday from 8
>> a.m. to 7 p.m. and at St. Mary's Church in Northampton Monday from noon to
>> 8:30 p.m.
>> 
>> A Belchertown couple whose son committed suicide six weeks ago, about a
> year
>> after returning from Iraq, addressed about 200 people on the Amherst
> common
>> Tuesday night. They added his boots to the display.
>> 
>> ''The horrific evils of war ate away at his humanity,'' said Kevin Lucey.
> He
>> called his son Jeffrey ''an uncounted casualty of the war'' and said there
>> are many like him.
>> 
>> ''He extended his hand for help, but he didn't reach soon enough or far
>> enough,'' he said. ''These boots may represent a number or a statistic,
> but
>> to us they represent souls, smiles, laughter, tears, hopes and dreams of
>> lives ended far too soon, of lives unfulfilled.''
>> 
>> Joyce Lucey said the boots show the emotional cost of war. She said many
>> soldiers come home with demons that society must confront.
>> 
>> Her son was not prepared for the horrors of war, she said. ''His humanity
>> was in conflict with what he had to do,'' she said.
>> 
>> His sisters, Kelly and Debbie, read from their brother's letters from
> Iraq.
>> A hat Jeffrey Lucey wore there was affixed to a display of photographs
>> showing him at different stages of his life, including his time in Iraq.
>> 
>> Karen Hurd of Florence, the mother of a soldier who returned from Iraq in
>> February, read a letter he wrote shortly after his captain was killed.
> ''As
>> we look at war, we must remember that there are no winners,'' she said.
>> 
>> Al Miller of Leverett, a Vietnam veteran, said all people who die in war
>> send out vibrations to those who knew them.
>> 
>> ''I'm afraid to tell you what the cost of war is and that it never goes
> away
>> and we can't seem to change the direction,'' he said.
>> 
>> Nick Grabbe can be reached at ngrabbe@gazettenet.com.
>> Copyright Daily Hamshire Gazette
>> 
>> _________________________________________________________________
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>> http://search.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200636ave/direct/01/
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From Reeeees at aol.com  Sun Aug  8 10:23:56 2004
From: Reeeees at aol.com (Reeeees@aol.com)
Date: Sun Aug  8 10:24:07 2004
Subject: [Mb-hair] Hair at Knightsbridge, LA
Message-ID: <15a.3bcd3cb5.2e47bbac@aol.com>

>From the Knightsbridge Theatre (Los Angeles) website:

When James Rado learned that another production of HAIR was about to go into 
production here in Los Angeles, he offered his latest version of the script to 
the Knightsbridge Theatre. Director Peter Finlayson gladly embraced the 
opportunity to work with this latest adaptation, and has assembled a cast and crew 
that would be sure to open this latest incarnation with all the passion that 
this show has earned.

Musical Director Kyle Puccia toured Europe as a member of the cast of HAIR. 
His immense talent and experience, combined with a cast of gifted performers, 
is sure to rekindle the memories of those old enough to remember the original, 
and inspire a whole new generation to the power of this magnificent show.

Amongst the cast are familiar faces and voices, Ana Ortiz (Crissy) who has 
also toured with HAIR and is often scene on television, as is 
Aaron Braxton (Hud) and Michelle Fox, a sought after studio vocalist is also 
part of this well honed ensemble.

Anyone that has ever been a part of this show, and most everyone that has 
seen HAIR, knows the immense power and hope that can be found in this experience. 
Whether you are new to the show or have seen it before, you will come away 
knowing what hope and love can be found in this most American of plays.
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From michael at intrafi.com  Thu Aug 12 14:53:39 2004
From: michael at intrafi.com (michael@intrafi.com)
Date: Thu Aug 12 17:38:20 2004
Subject: [Mb-hair] NYTimes.com Article: &#39; West Wing&#39;
	: Is It Facing a Struggle to Survive? 
Message-ID: <200408130038.i7D0cIgt023273@dune.islandtechnologies.net>

The article below from NYTimes.com 
has been sent to you by michael@intrafi.com.



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&#39;West Wing&#39;: Is It Facing a Struggle to Survive?

August 12, 2004
 By BERNARD WEINRAUB 



 

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 11 - "The West Wing," the award-winning
NBC drama series about a fictional White House, is
struggling to revive its ratings and its creative dynamism
in the coming season after two faltering years. But it may
be too late. 

With the nation focused on presidential politics, the
creators of "The West Wing" are plainly trying to tap into
real events to restore the series, which enters its sixth
season on Oct. 20 in its usual slot at 9 p.m. Wednesdays.
But the show, which has won four consecutive Emmy Awards as
the outstanding drama series and was nominated for 12 Emmys
this year despite its critical and audience slide, seems to
be teetering on the edge of cancellation next season unless
ratings pick up. 

Once lavishly praised for its serious content - some
critics said too serious - and its exploration of the
tensions and compromises in a liberal White House, "The
West Wing" was a Top 10 show with 17.1 million viewers in
2001-2. The next year the audience dropped to 13.4 million,
partly because of rivalry from reality shows like "The
Bachelor" and "The Bachelorette" on ABC. (The slide in the
18-to-49 demographic was especially severe.) Last year the
total viewer average fell to 11.7 million. But critics said
the series had also lost its way - its plots and characters
had sometimes turned far-fetched. 

Kevin Reilly, the president of NBC Entertainment,
acknowledged to television critics and reporters in July
that "The West Wing" was "ratings challenged last year."
Speaking of the fictional Democratic president, Josiah
Bartlet (played by Martin Sheen), Mr. Reilly said that "the
Bartlet administration is clearly coming to the end of its
term, and I think that's going to foster some really
interesting developments." Mr. Reilly said the show's
writers were planning to "juice up" the series creatively
but avoided details. 

Mr. Reilly said in an interview that the presidential
election would have an impact on "The West Wing," and would
"certainly set story lines in motion." He said the series
would involve presidential politics and that the evolving
characters in the show would reflect more than the
traditional liberal viewpoints of the Bartlet White House.
He said he hoped the series would be picked up after next
season, depending not only on the ratings but also on its
creative direction. Among the reasons offered for the
show's ratings decline, Mr. Reilly said, was that "The West
Wing" may have seemed out of sync at times with the real
West Wing and the conservatism in the nation. 

"Did the show reflect the real-life shift in the winds?"
Mr. Reilly asked. "That's debatable." 

To reflect the realities of the nation's politics, the
show's producers brought in Kenneth M. Duberstein, once
chief of staff to President Ronald Reagan, as a consultant.


"The West Wing" was created by Aaron Sorkin, who left the
show in May 2003 after declining ratings and budget issues,
along with his partner in the show, Thomas Schlamme, an
executive producer like Mr. Sorkin and the lead director.
In their final season and despite a surprise Emmy for best
drama, the show began to lose viewers and veer into
melodrama. (The president's daughter was abducted by
terrorists.) 

John Wells, an executive producer on "The West Wing" and
one of television's most successful producers of shows like
"E. R.," succeeded Mr. Sorkin. By several accounts one of
Mr. Wells's tasks was to control the show's budget. Mr.
Sorkin had played a role in writing and rewriting almost
every show, sometimes late, and was not seriously engaged
in budget issues. Mr. Sorkin did not respond to a request
for an interview. 

In Mr. Wells's first year the ratings dropped even further.
Instead of the stylized rapid-fire dialogue created by Mr.
Sorkin for White House figures on the edge of personal or
political crises, the series turned contrived and
convoluted, critics said. Some White House staff members,
already smug in the Sorkin years, turned insufferable. The
series, which had confined itself almost entirely to the
White House in its early years, branched out into plots
involving terrorism and foreign intrigue. 

A spokeswoman for Mr. Wells said he would not comment.


Lawrence O'Donnell, a writer-producer on the show in its
early years, who has now returned, and Mr. Reilly said that
in the new season "The West Wing'' would most certainly
involve politics and concern who would succeed President
Bartlet, now winding up his second term in the White House.
It was both fortunate and coincidental, the two said
separately, that events in the "The West Wing" would blur
into the real politics of the nation. 

Mr. O'Donnell said: "In the evolution of the stories,
politics and campaigning has been the arena least explored.
We're trying to rectify that balance." 

He said: "It's a slightly unreal element on the show that
we haven't had the political sharks circling the White
House. That dynamic will now be added." 

Whether the changes will generate higher ratings is
understandably of great concern to NBC, Mr. Wells and his
staff. 

The series, produced by Warner Brothers, is expensive,
costing about $6.5 million an episode. Warner Brothers also
produces "The Bachelor" and "The Bachelorette," "The West
Wing" rivals on ABC. Peter Roth, president of Warner
Brothers Television, declined to discuss "The West Wing." 

Mr. Reilly said that 3 episodes of the new season had been
completed and 9 of 22 had been written. 

Will the real presidential election and its aftermath buoy
the ratings of the fictional politics on "The West Wing"?
Mr. Reilly said, "The election is a catalyst for setting
certain stories in motion." 

"I can't give anything specific this year," he said, "but
there will be tumult in the administration this year." The
Bartlet administration, of course. 

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From barbarasiomos38 at webtv.net  Fri Aug 13 03:25:09 2004
From: barbarasiomos38 at webtv.net (Barbara Siomos)
Date: Fri Aug 13 03:25:17 2004
Subject: [Mb-hair] Hurricane
Message-ID: <6472-411C9705-105@storefull-3211.bay.webtv.net>

Oh Robin and Susie I hope you are ok with the hurricane headed right to
your area.... When you have a chance let us know how you are...

Prayers and Love to you and everyone there.

peace,
barbara

From olhippie at tampabay.rr.com  Fri Aug 13 08:30:54 2004
From: olhippie at tampabay.rr.com (Robin McNamara)
Date: Fri Aug 13 08:31:14 2004
Subject: [Mb-hair] Re: Hurricane
References: <6472-411C9705-105@storefull-3211.bay.webtv.net>
Message-ID: <001401c4814a$864728f0$3e022341@YOUR5F5932F0DA>

Barbra

Thanks

Right now it is approx. 200 miles due South of Tampa Bay where I live, They
expect it to hit the Tampa Bay area between area 6 & 8pm tonight full force
with winds at least 120 mph.

Love foever
Robin




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Barbara Siomos" <barbarasiomos38@webtv.net>
To: <mb-civic@islandlists.com>; <mb-hair@islandlists.com>;
<olhippie@tampabay.rr.com>
Sent: Friday, August 13, 2004 6:25 AM
Subject: Hurricane


> Oh Robin and Susie I hope you are ok with the hurricane headed right to
> your area.... When you have a chance let us know how you are...
>
> Prayers and Love to you and everyone there.
>
> peace,
> barbara
>

From michael at michaelbutler.com  Fri Aug 13 09:23:19 2004
From: michael at michaelbutler.com (Michael Butler)
Date: Fri Aug 13 09:20:11 2004
Subject: [Mb-hair] Hurricane
In-Reply-To: <6472-411C9705-105@storefull-3211.bay.webtv.net>
Message-ID: <BD423907.18657%michael@michaelbutler.com>

Robin and Susie,
Keep the grass dry.
Peace and Love
Michael

> Oh Robin and Susie I hope you are ok with the hurricane headed right to
> your area.... When you have a chance let us know how you are...
> 
> Prayers and Love to you and everyone there.
> 
> peace,
> barbara
> 
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From barbarasiomos38 at webtv.net  Fri Aug 13 10:10:18 2004
From: barbarasiomos38 at webtv.net (Barbara Siomos)
Date: Fri Aug 13 10:10:36 2004
Subject: [Mb-hair] Re: Hurricane
In-Reply-To: "Robin McNamara" <olhippie@tampabay.rr.com>'s message of Fri,
	13 Aug 2004 11:30:54 -0400
Message-ID: <13765-411CF5FA-522@storefull-3212.bay.webtv.net>

Thank you Robin you all are in my prayers....

Peace,
barbara
>From: "Robin McNamara"
><olhippie@tampabay.rr.com> 
>To: "Barbara Siomos"
><barbarasiomos38@webtv.net>,
><mb-civic@islandlists.com>,
><mb-hair@islandlists.com> 
>Subject: Re: Hurricane 

Barbra
 
Thanks
 
Right now it is approx. 200 miles due South of Tampa Bay where I live,
They expect it to hit the Tampa Bay area between area 6 & 8pm tonight
full force with winds at least 120 mph.
 
Love foever
Robin
 
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Barbara Siomos"
><barbarasiomos38@webtv.net>
>To: <mb-civic@islandlists.com>;
><mb-hair@islandlists.com>;
><olhippie@tampabay.rr.com>
>Sent: Friday, August 13, 2004 6:25 AM
>Subject: Hurricane
 
Oh Robin and Susie I hope you are ok with the hurricane headed right to
your area.... When you have a chance let us know how you are...
 
Prayers and Love to you and everyone there.
 
peace,
barbara

From olhippie at tampabay.rr.com  Fri Aug 13 11:04:29 2004
From: olhippie at tampabay.rr.com (Robin McNamara)
Date: Fri Aug 13 11:04:38 2004
Subject: [Mb-hair] Hurricane
References: <BD423907.18657%michael@michaelbutler.com>
Message-ID: <001601c4815f$fa8ac090$3e022341@YOUR5F5932F0DA>

Thank you Michael

The sky is getting dark there is a mysterious higher power in the air. I
have the vidio camera because we also have tornado warnings, I want to be
prepared to capture anything, they just increased the wind speed potential
to 145mph.

My love forever
Robin





----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Butler" <michael@michaelbutler.com>
To: "HAIR List" <mb-hair@islandlists.com>
Sent: Friday, August 13, 2004 12:23 PM
Subject: Re: [Mb-hair] Hurricane


> Robin and Susie,
> Keep the grass dry.
> Peace and Love
> Michael
>
> > Oh Robin and Susie I hope you are ok with the hurricane headed right to
> > your area.... When you have a chance let us know how you are...
> >
> > Prayers and Love to you and everyone there.
> >
> > peace,
> > barbara
> >
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From olhippie at tampabay.rr.com  Fri Aug 13 11:30:04 2004
From: olhippie at tampabay.rr.com (Robin McNamara)
Date: Fri Aug 13 11:30:25 2004
Subject: [Mb-hair] Re: [Mb-civic] Re: Hurricane
References: <6472-411C9705-105@storefull-3211.bay.webtv.net>
	<001401c4814a$864728f0$3e022341@YOUR5F5932F0DA>
	<411CE3BD.10703@earthlink.net>
Message-ID: <004801c48163$8d5a3060$3e022341@YOUR5F5932F0DA>

Walter

 I remember Hurricane Carol growing up in Waltham Mass. in 1954.  I was 7 . When the eye crossed overhead my mother took us 4 kids outside and I will never forget there was devastation up & down the steet but the the sun was out and the wind was calm. But you could hear the wind spinning like a fright train coming back at us from the other sde, We scurried back in the house & waited out the storm. :)

Love forever
Robin



----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Walter Michael Harris 
  To: mb-civic@islandlists.com 
  Sent: Friday, August 13, 2004 11:52 AM
  Subject: Re: [Mb-civic] Re: Hurricane


  Robin,

  We had a big one in Clearwater when I was about 10 or 11, in the early 1960s. We evacuated Clearwater Beach, where we lived.  When we returned, after the hurricane, some of our living room furniture was in the back yard!

  WMH

  **

  Robin McNamara wrote:

Barbra

Thanks

Right now it is approx. 200 miles due South of Tampa Bay where I live, They
expect it to hit the Tampa Bay area between area 6 & 8pm tonight full force
with winds at least 120 mph.

Love foever
Robin




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Barbara Siomos" <barbarasiomos38@webtv.net>
To: <mb-civic@islandlists.com>; <mb-hair@islandlists.com>;
<olhippie@tampabay.rr.com>
Sent: Friday, August 13, 2004 6:25 AM
Subject: Hurricane


  Oh Robin and Susie I hope you are ok with the hurricane headed right to
your area.... When you have a chance let us know how you are...

Prayers and Love to you and everyone there.

peace,
barbara

    
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From lbirdie at hotmail.com  Fri Aug 13 12:58:34 2004
From: lbirdie at hotmail.com (Little Birdie)
Date: Fri Aug 13 12:58:48 2004
Subject: [Mb-hair] Hair Archives and Bill Swiggard in the news
Message-ID: <BAY9-F59xuUdUJuFUzo00024e71@hotmail.com>

Hello all -

A great cover article in the magazine section of a western New England 
newspaper, on our favorite Claude turned AIDS doctor Bill Swiggard:

http://www.dailyhampshiregazette.com/storytmp.cfm?id_no=8130051

Be sure and also read the accompanying article "From the Stage To The 
Clinic", which talks about how he went from Hair to being a doctor, and 
includes a brief interview with a certain Hair archivist (linked from the 
end of the above article, or click this link):

http://www.dailyhampshiregazette.com/storytmp.cfm?id_no=8130078

There were many great photos that are not online (including one of me 
surrounded by Hair memorabilia). I hope to get them scanned and online in 
the not too distant future for those of you who want to see what we all look 
like these days.

Enjoy!
Nina

The Hair Archives
http://www.michaelbutler.com/hair/holding/Hair.html

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From wmichaelharris at earthlink.net  Fri Aug 13 15:25:38 2004
From: wmichaelharris at earthlink.net (Walter Michael Harris)
Date: Fri Aug 13 15:25:47 2004
Subject: [Mb-hair] Re: [Mb-civic] Re: Hurricane
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Robin -

I forget the name of The Big One (hurricane) when I lived on Clearwater 
Beach - it must have been 1961 or 1962.  I do remember wandering too 
near the water line to watch the tremendous swells rise and break - and 
hear the wind howl.  But it seems to me my mom howled louder when she 
made me get back inside!

KEPP SAFE - TELL US EVERYTHING!

Love

WMH
***

Robin McNamara wrote:

> Walter
>  
>  I remember Hurricane Carol growing up in Waltham Mass. in 1954.  I 
> was 7 . When the eye crossed overhead my mother took us 4 kids 
> outside and I will never forget there was devastation up & down the 
> steet but the the sun was out and the wind was calm. But you could 
> hear the wind spinning like a fright train coming back at us from the 
> other sde, We scurried back in the house & waited out the storm. :)
>  
> Love forever
> Robin
>  
>  
>  
> ----- Original Message -----
>
>     From: Walter Michael Harris <mailto:wmichaelharris@earthlink.net>
>     To: mb-civic@islandlists.com <mailto:mb-civic@islandlists.com>
>     Sent: Friday, August 13, 2004 11:52 AM
>     Subject: Re: [Mb-civic] Re: Hurricane
>
>     Robin,
>
>     We had a big one in Clearwater when I was about 10 or 11, in the
>     early 1960s. We evacuated Clearwater Beach, where we lived.  When
>     we returned, after the hurricane, some of our living room
>     furniture was in the back yard!
>
>     WMH
>
>     **
>
>     Robin McNamara wrote:
>
>>Barbra
>>
>>Thanks
>>
>>Right now it is approx. 200 miles due South of Tampa Bay where I live, They
>>expect it to hit the Tampa Bay area between area 6 & 8pm tonight full force
>>with winds at least 120 mph.
>>
>>Love foever
>>Robin
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>----- Original Message ----- 
>>From: "Barbara Siomos" <barbarasiomos38@webtv.net>
>>To: <mb-civic@islandlists.com>; <mb-hair@islandlists.com>;
>><olhippie@tampabay.rr.com>
>>Sent: Friday, August 13, 2004 6:25 AM
>>Subject: Hurricane
>>
>>
>>  
>>
>>>Oh Robin and Susie I hope you are ok with the hurricane headed right to
>>>your area.... When you have a chance let us know how you are...
>>>
>>>Prayers and Love to you and everyone there.
>>>
>>>peace,
>>>barbara
>>>
>>>    
>>>
>>
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From: wmichaelharris at earthlink.net (Walter Michael Harris)
Date: Fri Aug 13 15:58:21 2004
Subject: [Mb-hair] Re: A Message from Michael Butler
References: <411D1F96.1030601@michaelbutler.com>
Message-ID: <411D477E.8040807@earthlink.net>

Michael,

Your "tent tour" plan for HAIR was inspired, timely and visionary. 
 Having come to know you much better in the last three years than in the 
last thirty, I feel your frustration and share your heartbreak.

Well all share the feeling that if there was ever a time for HAIR it's 
now, with the country run by lunatics and the world in disarray.  It's a 
complete mystery to me why Jim and/or Galt would take such a stance with 
you, the founder of their feast.  I feel bad when I consider how much of 
your heart, time and effort has gone into the planning and re-planning 
of this project over the last ten years, and how much money and 
opportunity has been lost.

But life has taught me there is more to the seen than to the unseen. 
 Perhaps the derailment of this tour could be a blessing in disguise for 
you in ways we can't know.  When I lost my leg, not long after leaving 
HAIR in 1969, I felt my life had taken a major turn for the worse.  It 
wasn't until years later that I understood how the twists and turns of 
serendipidy, positive and seemingly negative, that attended this 
negative and debilitating experience, ultimately led me to Patty (my 
wife), her kids, and the life I enjoy now.

Were it not for the events that followed in the wake of losing my leg, I 
don't believe I would be in this happiest of circumstances.

Not a perfect analogy - I know.  But take comfort from the thousands of 
millions souls that HAIR inspired - and lives transformed - because of 
your initiative all those years ago and since.  I'm one of them, and 
forever grateful to you.

You know very well that when you're trying to do something, and one 
obstacle after another gets in the way and it feels like you're swimming 
upstream, it's time to cut your losses and set your sights on a new 
direction.  Not to go biblical on you, but as the book says, shake the 
dust off of your feet.  Don't let this shake your knightly spirit.

Yours in rising above,

WMH

***


Hair at Michael Butler Online wrote:

>
>
> REPORT ON HAIR
>
> I have been asked often why I am not producing Hair at this time. The 
> message of Hair is so appropriate during the current political season 
> that many wonder why it is not touring. I finally agreed to explain, 
> to clarify the reasons why the Liberty Tour of Hair was canceled.
>
> The simple answer; I was turned down by the authors.
>
> For more than seven years this tour was in preparation. I put other 
> projects on the back burner, to their and my detriment. The authors 
> delayed choosing a Director. I worked with engineers and financial 
> consultants to create the Festival concept which had been approved by 
> the authors (this concept was a traveling theatre surrounded by a 
> theme park of Haight Ashbury & Greenwich Village).
>
> Then, after a great deal of time and resources had been put into this 
> concept, the authors changed their minds and killed the Festival plan. 
> This forced us to seek out a standard tour at a time when the road had 
> more product than any time in memory. A major booking company tried to 
> mount a tour for us but had to withdraw. However, our GM was able to 
> put a beginning tour together. Finally the authors finalized a 
> Director and for the second time we started auditions, casting for a 
> tour to start in Boston the 20th of January. We requested a few weeks 
> delay to complete our financing. We secured financing before the 
> requested date but still they turned me down. None of us, nor others 
> who have asked, have been able to get an explanation for this 
> decision. From a rational point of view it is difficult to understand.
>
> For me the damage has been difficult to accept. Artistically I was 
> offended by Rado?s constant tinkering with the book and changing 
> lyrics. MacDermot was so disinterested that he did not attend 
> auditions. Financially this was very bad, hundreds of thousands went 
> to the Festival planning and over five years of overhead with advances 
> being paid the authors. However the worst problem has been the mental, 
> emotional, and even spiritual fallout.
>
> You probably will recollect that back in 1967 every producer turned 
> Hair down, including initially Joe Papp. I did Hair because I loved 
> it, but more importantly because I considered it a very important 
> statement at a time of great divisions in America. Now we are faced 
> with a time far more perilous in our history. It is a time when the 
> message of Hair is so needed. Thus, due to the authors decision, an 
> important platform of dissent is being kept from the public. I had 
> worked out a plan with Global Youth for registration of young voters 
> at performances on the Liberty Tour.
>
> Now Hair is reportedly being brought out by a commercial producing 
> entity in 2005. For me and many others the horse will have left the 
> barn. Notwithstanding that I have spent decades giving Hair priority 
> and with others would be considered a parent of Hair, the authors have 
> the legal right to do what they have done. I have only myself to blame 
> for being so naive as to believe that Peace and Love was everyone's 
> message.
>
>
> Michael Butler
> 12 August 2004
>
>
>


From VinUschi at t-online.de  Fri Aug 13 20:57:19 2004
From: VinUschi at t-online.de (Vincent Edwards)
Date: Sat Aug 14 03:51:53 2004
Subject: [Mb-hair] re hair report
Message-ID: <411D8D9F.BAAA0D35@t-online.de>

dear michael thanks for your hair report if you and the writers cant
come together on a hair tour that would have been so right for today
then the dark clouds are gonna be around for a long time dont give up on
love and peace brother its our only hope. love ya  vincent

From barbarasiomos38 at webtv.net  Sat Aug 14 07:26:32 2004
From: barbarasiomos38 at webtv.net (Barbara Siomos)
Date: Sat Aug 14 07:26:37 2004
Subject: [Mb-hair] Re: A Message from Michael Butler
In-Reply-To: Hair at Michael Butler Online <hair@michaelbutler.com>'s
	message of Fri, 13 Aug 2004 16:07:50 -0400
Message-ID: <26229-411E2118-280@storefull-3217.bay.webtv.net>

Michael as Vincent said do not give up on Peace and Love..... Karma will
take care of Rado and Mac Dermot. You have always been the one who gave
of yourself in love and finances for HAiR and without you there would
have been no multiple productions of the show and therefor no large
following.... Rado and MacD. are only after the money you are after the
love and to spread the word at a time when it is needed in our country.

Without you as well we would have no place now to meet and chat and as I
said Karma will take care of them for the hurt and pain they have
caused.

Love and Peace,
barbara

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From VinUschi at t-online.de  Sat Aug 14 06:52:39 2004
From: VinUschi at t-online.de (Vincent Edwards)
Date: Sat Aug 14 13:46:58 2004
Subject: [Mb-hair] peace and love
Message-ID: <411E1926.3AB381EB@t-online.de>

dear michael peace and love is not every ones message thats why angels
like you and all our hair sisters and brothers have to keep our dreams
and our faith alive we are not alone love and peace  vincent  ulm
germany albert einsteins home town.

From michael at michaelbutler.com  Sat Aug 14 14:23:01 2004
From: michael at michaelbutler.com (Michael Butler)
Date: Sat Aug 14 14:20:04 2004
Subject: [Mb-hair] peace and love
In-Reply-To: <411E1926.3AB381EB@t-online.de>
Message-ID: <BD43D0C5.18725%michael@michaelbutler.com>

Dear Vincent,
Thanks and speaking of Einstein
Peace and Love
Michael
-- . "Found", he said, "a world youth parliament. The Russians, the Chinese,
the black people in Africa - everyone has to become a member. If those will
not become a member now but later, you must start now - a world youth
parliament." The second thing I should found was a cosmic religion. He said,
"Religions, for 2000 years, have forfeited their purpose. They made a pact
always with political powers to grow their own religious power. You found a
world youth parliament and a cosmic religion." Albert Einstein 1954




> dear michael peace and love is not every ones message that's why angels
> like you and all our hair sisters and brothers have to keep our dreams
> and our faith alive we are not alone love and peace  vincent  ulm
> germany albert einsteins home town.
> 
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From barbarasiomos38 at webtv.net  Sat Aug 14 14:28:07 2004
From: barbarasiomos38 at webtv.net (Barbara Siomos)
Date: Sat Aug 14 14:28:22 2004
Subject: [Mb-hair] peace and love
In-Reply-To: Michael Butler <michael@michaelbutler.com>'s message of Sat,
	14 Aug 2004 14:23:01 -0700
Message-ID: <13764-411E83E7-3076@storefull-3212.bay.webtv.net>

Wow Michael the Albert Einstein quote to Vincent could have been your
words!  {:-)~

barbara
>Date: Sat, Aug 14, 2004, 2:23pm (EDT-3) 
>Subject: Re: [Mb-hair] peace and love 
>From: Michael Butler
><michael@michaelbutler.com> 
>To: HAIR List <mb-hair@islandlists.com>
 
>Dear Vincent,
>Thanks and speaking of Einstein
>Peace and Love
>Michael
 
-- . "Found", he said, "a world youth parliament. The Russians, the
Chinese, the black people in Africa - everyone has to become a member.
If those will not become a member now but later, you must start now - a
world youth parliament." The second thing I should found was a cosmic
religion. He said, "Religions, for 2000 years, have forfeited their
purpose. They made a pact always with political powers to grow their own
religious power. You found a world youth parliament and a cosmic
religion." Albert Einstein 1954

From myelvis4u at flash.net  Mon Aug 16 21:58:17 2004
From: myelvis4u at flash.net (myelvis4u@flash.net)
Date: Mon Aug 16 21:58:50 2004
Subject: [Mb-hair] TOO MUCH MAIL - and HAIR in Houston!
Message-ID: <287310-22004821745817369@M2W076.mail2web.com>

Hi   Nina,

 Could you please switch me to digest-mode also?
 I didn't realize there would be so many messages.
I'd hate to miss something important, but ...

Thanks!

Oh. By the way: my photo of I GOT LIFE! will be on the poster (with three
other 
pictures) for the new HAIR run in Houston Texas, in September!

 Love
 Dagmar


Original Message:
-----------------
From: Little Birdie lbirdie@hotmail.com
Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 02:28:13 +0000
To: mb-hair@islandlists.com, venuetheatre@juno.com
Subject: Re: [Mb-hair] TOO MUCH MAIL


OK, Corinne, I switched you to digest mode. :) Let me know if there's any 
problem with it.

Love,
Nina

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From Ace at aceross.com  Mon Aug 16 21:59:56 2004
From: Ace at aceross.com (Ace)
Date: Mon Aug 16 22:00:03 2004
Subject: [Mb-hair] TOO MUCH MAIL - and HAIR in Houston!
In-Reply-To: <287310-22004821745817369@M2W076.mail2web.com>
Message-ID: <20040817045909.A8D5138807D@gw01-bur.mroute.net>

http://positivepause.com/



-----Original Message-----
From: mb-hair-bounces@islandlists.com
[mailto:mb-hair-bounces@islandlists.com] On Behalf Of myelvis4u@flash.net
Sent: Monday, August 16, 2004 9:58 PM
To: mb-hair@islandlists.com; lbirdie@hotmail.com
Subject: Re: [Mb-hair] TOO MUCH MAIL - and HAIR in Houston!

Hi   Nina,

 Could you please switch me to digest-mode also?
 I didn't realize there would be so many messages.
I'd hate to miss something important, but ...

Thanks!

Oh. By the way: my photo of I GOT LIFE! will be on the poster (with three
other 
pictures) for the new HAIR run in Houston Texas, in September!

 Love
 Dagmar


Original Message:
-----------------
From: Little Birdie lbirdie@hotmail.com
Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 02:28:13 +0000
To: mb-hair@islandlists.com, venuetheatre@juno.com
Subject: Re: [Mb-hair] TOO MUCH MAIL


OK, Corinne, I switched you to digest mode. :) Let me know if there's any 
problem with it.

Love,
Nina

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From myelvis4u at flash.net  Mon Aug 16 22:11:44 2004
From: myelvis4u at flash.net (myelvis4u@flash.net)
Date: Mon Aug 16 22:12:14 2004
Subject: [Mb-hair] TOO MUCH MAIL - and HAIR in Houston!
Message-ID: <218980-22004821751144210@M2W024.mail2web.com>

Thanks, how lovely and  very much appreciated!!

 I just  threw out 85 unnecessary and annoying messages - none of them HAIR-
related!!
 that came in in the last couple of days. Made my teeth ache (you know that
feeling?)

 Your thoughtful link wiped it all away.
Thank you again

Good night for now

 Dagmar

Original Message:
-----------------
From: Ace Ace@aceross.com
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 21:59:56 -0700
To: mb-hair@islandlists.com
Subject: RE: [Mb-hair] TOO MUCH MAIL - and HAIR in Houston!


http://positivepause.com/



-----Original Message-----
From: mb-hair-bounces@islandlists.com
[mailto:mb-hair-bounces@islandlists.com] On Behalf Of myelvis4u@flash.net
Sent: Monday, August 16, 2004 9:58 PM
To: mb-hair@islandlists.com; lbirdie@hotmail.com
Subject: Re: [Mb-hair] TOO MUCH MAIL - and HAIR in Houston!

Hi   Nina,

 Could you please switch me to digest-mode also?
 I didn't realize there would be so many messages.
I'd hate to miss something important, but ...

Thanks!

Oh. By the way: my photo of I GOT LIFE! will be on the poster (with three
other 
pictures) for the new HAIR run in Houston Texas, in September!

 Love
 Dagmar


Original Message:
-----------------
From: Little Birdie lbirdie@hotmail.com
Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 02:28:13 +0000
To: mb-hair@islandlists.com, venuetheatre@juno.com
Subject: Re: [Mb-hair] TOO MUCH MAIL


OK, Corinne, I switched you to digest mode. :) Let me know if there's any 
problem with it.

Love,
Nina

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From lbirdie at hotmail.com  Tue Aug 17 06:24:48 2004
From: lbirdie at hotmail.com (Little Birdie)
Date: Tue Aug 17 06:24:52 2004
Subject: [Mb-hair] TOO MUCH MAIL - and HAIR in Houston!
Message-ID: <BAY9-F30UXLTOXhTozv00018fa3@hotmail.com>

Hi Dagmar,

You are now in digest mode! (And that spam didn't come from the list this 
time  - I personally throw out the few pieces of spam that have come through 
before they go out to the membership list, so at least for now we are spam 
free! Yippee!! :)

Congratulations on the Houston poster! I am glad that worked out. We'll have 
to get them to donate a poster to the Archives.

Love and hugs,
Nina


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>From: "myelvis4u@flash.net" <myelvis4u@flash.net>
>Reply-To: myelvis4u@flash.net
>To: mb-hair@islandlists.com,  lbirdie@hotmail.com
>Subject: Re: [Mb-hair] TOO MUCH MAIL - and HAIR in Houston!
>Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 00:58:17 -0400
>
>Hi   Nina,
>
>  Could you please switch me to digest-mode also?
>  I didn't realize there would be so many messages.
>I'd hate to miss something important, but ...
>
>Thanks!
>
>Oh. By the way: my photo of I GOT LIFE! will be on the poster (with three
>other
>pictures) for the new HAIR run in Houston Texas, in September!
>
>  Love
>  Dagmar
>
>
>Original Message:
>-----------------
>From: Little Birdie lbirdie@hotmail.com
>Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 02:28:13 +0000
>To: mb-hair@islandlists.com, venuetheatre@juno.com
>Subject: Re: [Mb-hair] TOO MUCH MAIL
>
>
>OK, Corinne, I switched you to digest mode. :) Let me know if there's any
>problem with it.
>
>Love,
>Nina
>
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>
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From myelvis4u at flash.net  Tue Aug 17 12:58:31 2004
From: myelvis4u at flash.net (myelvis4u@flash.net)
Date: Tue Aug 17 12:58:40 2004
Subject: [Mb-hair] Re: A Message from Michael Butler
Message-ID: <279210-220048217195831731@M2W099.mail2web.com>

Hello Walter,

 that was very lovely and well put.
 I agree and feel with you for Michael B.

 We should, however,  not  judge too soon, and in reply to Barbara's later
message - 
not become vicious.

What she wrote is  a bit harsh.

 Although I don't know the reasons behind Rado's decision, 
 and it is not up to me to agree or disagree with it -
he is still one of the authors who made all this possible.
 I'm sure money is not his main motive.

 And as to Galt, he's moved on to other projects, is still creating new
music 
and HAIR is just one part of his very full life.
 Who knows why he couldn't be at the auditions.  Ask him!

He certainly came to Vienna for the opening of HAIR there, and so did Rado. 
I met them there.

They were both still very much connected to the musical and its message.
Dagmar

Original Message:
-----------------
From: Walter Michael Harris wmichaelharris@earthlink.net
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2004 15:58:06 -0700
To: hair@michaelbutler.com, mb-hair@islandemail.com
Subject: [Mb-hair] Re: A Message from Michael Butler


Michael,

Your "tent tour" plan for HAIR was inspired, timely and visionary. 
 Having come to know you much better in the last three years than in the 
last thirty, I feel your frustration and share your heartbreak.

Well all share the feeling that if there was ever a time for HAIR it's 
now, with the country run by lunatics and the world in disarray.  It's a 
complete mystery to me why Jim and/or Galt would take such a stance with 
you, the founder of their feast.  I feel bad when I consider how much of 
your heart, time and effort has gone into the planning and re-planning 
of this project over the last ten years, and how much money and 
opportunity has been lost.

But life has taught me there is more to the seen than to the unseen. 
 Perhaps the derailment of this tour could be a blessing in disguise for 
you in ways we can't know.  When I lost my leg, not long after leaving 
HAIR in 1969, I felt my life had taken a major turn for the worse.  It 
wasn't until years later that I understood how the twists and turns of 
serendipidy, positive and seemingly negative, that attended this 
negative and debilitating experience, ultimately led me to Patty (my 
wife), her kids, and the life I enjoy now.

Were it not for the events that followed in the wake of losing my leg, I 
don't believe I would be in this happiest of circumstances.

Not a perfect analogy - I know.  But take comfort from the thousands of 
millions souls that HAIR inspired - and lives transformed - because of 
your initiative all those years ago and since.  I'm one of them, and 
forever grateful to you.

You know very well that when you're trying to do something, and one 
obstacle after another gets in the way and it feels like you're swimming 
upstream, it's time to cut your losses and set your sights on a new 
direction.  Not to go biblical on you, but as the book says, shake the 
dust off of your feet.  Don't let this shake your knightly spirit.

Yours in rising above,

WMH

***


Hair at Michael Butler Online wrote:

>
>
> REPORT ON HAIR
>
> I have been asked often why I am not producing Hair at this time. The 
> message of Hair is so appropriate during the current political season 
> that many wonder why it is not touring. I finally agreed to explain, 
> to clarify the reasons why the Liberty Tour of Hair was canceled.
>
> The simple answer; I was turned down by the authors.
>
> For more than seven years this tour was in preparation. I put other 
> projects on the back burner, to their and my detriment. The authors 
> delayed choosing a Director. I worked with engineers and financial 
> consultants to create the Festival concept which had been approved by 
> the authors (this concept was a traveling theatre surrounded by a 
> theme park of Haight Ashbury & Greenwich Village).
>
> Then, after a great deal of time and resources had been put into this 
> concept, the authors changed their minds and killed the Festival plan. 
> This forced us to seek out a standard tour at a time when the road had 
> more product than any time in memory. A major booking company tried to 
> mount a tour for us but had to withdraw. However, our GM was able to 
> put a beginning tour together. Finally the authors finalized a 
> Director and for the second time we started auditions, casting for a 
> tour to start in Boston the 20th of January. We requested a few weeks 
> delay to complete our financing. We secured financing before the 
> requested date but still they turned me down. None of us, nor others 
> who have asked, have been able to get an explanation for this 
> decision. From a rational point of view it is difficult to understand.
>
> For me the damage has been difficult to accept. Artistically I was 
> offended by Rado?s constant tinkering with the book and changing 
> lyrics. MacDermot was so disinterested that he did not attend 
> auditions. Financially this was very bad, hundreds of thousands went 
> to the Festival planning and over five years of overhead with advances 
> being paid the authors. However the worst problem has been the mental, 
> emotional, and even spiritual fallout.
>
> You probably will recollect that back in 1967 every producer turned 
> Hair down, including initially Joe Papp. I did Hair because I loved 
> it, but more importantly because I considered it a very important 
> statement at a time of great divisions in America. Now we are faced 
> with a time far more perilous in our history. It is a time when the 
> message of Hair is so needed. Thus, due to the authors decision, an 
> important platform of dissent is being kept from the public. I had 
> worked out a plan with Global Youth for registration of young voters 
> at performances on the Liberty Tour.
>
> Now Hair is reportedly being brought out by a commercial producing 
> entity in 2005. For me and many others the horse will have left the 
> barn. Notwithstanding that I have spent decades giving Hair priority 
> and with others would be considered a parent of Hair, the authors have 
> the legal right to do what they have done. I have only myself to blame 
> for being so naive as to believe that Peace and Love was everyone's 
> message.
>
>
> Michael Butler
> 12 August 2004
>
>
>


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From barbarasiomos38 at webtv.net  Tue Aug 17 13:02:41 2004
From: barbarasiomos38 at webtv.net (Barbara Siomos)
Date: Tue Aug 17 13:02:57 2004
Subject: [Mb-hair] TOO MUCH MAIL - and HAIR in Houston!
In-Reply-To: "Ace" <Ace@aceross.com>'s message of Mon,
	16 Aug 2004 21:59:56 -0700
Message-ID: <29170-41226461-5230@storefull-3211.bay.webtv.net>

Thanks for the positivepause site..... :-)

peace,
barbara

From Ace at aceross.com  Tue Aug 17 13:04:33 2004
From: Ace at aceross.com (Ace)
Date: Tue Aug 17 13:04:49 2004
Subject: [Mb-hair] TOO MUCH MAIL - and HAIR in Houston!
In-Reply-To: <29170-41226461-5230@storefull-3211.bay.webtv.net>
Message-ID: <20040817200435.A8D1A21F1DF@gw04-bur.mroute.net>

You are very welcome,

I love you:)

ace




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Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 2004 1:03 PM
To: Ace@aceross.com; mb-hair@islandlists.com
Subject: RE: [Mb-hair] TOO MUCH MAIL - and HAIR in Houston!

Thanks for the positivepause site..... :-)

peace,
barbara

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From barbarasiomos38 at webtv.net  Tue Aug 17 13:33:10 2004
From: barbarasiomos38 at webtv.net (Barbara Siomos)
Date: Tue Aug 17 13:33:24 2004
Subject: [Mb-hair] TOO MUCH MAIL - and HAIR in Houston!
In-Reply-To: "Little Birdie" <lbirdie@hotmail.com>'s message of Tue,
	17 Aug 2004 13:24:48 +0000
Message-ID: <29170-41226B86-5292@storefull-3211.bay.webtv.net>

Nina I have NOT gotten one piece of spam through the HAiR or Civic list
since the whole re-doing...Thanks to you and Patrick and of course
Michael for caring.   :-)

peace
barbara

From LilacAmy11 at aol.com  Tue Aug 17 13:56:08 2004
From: LilacAmy11 at aol.com (LilacAmy11@aol.com)
Date: Tue Aug 17 13:56:27 2004
Subject: [Mb-hair] TOO MUCH MAIL - and HAIR in Houston!
Message-ID: <0F5AF2D2.23417954.0BE84C0A@aol.com>

Yes I wanted to say thank you for the complete disappearence of spam from the list! It's so much better:)

-- 
- Amy

"Life is around you and in you... Let the Sunshine In!"
- from HAIR (the musical)

"in time of lilacs who proclaim/ the aim of waking is to dream" ?- e.e. cummings

From lbirdie at hotmail.com  Tue Aug 17 14:10:57 2004
From: lbirdie at hotmail.com (Little Birdie)
Date: Tue Aug 17 14:11:02 2004
Subject: [Mb-hair] TOO MUCH MAIL - and HAIR in Houston!
Message-ID: <BAY9-F28Fi4y4Hy9uiG0001d20c@hotmail.com>

Thanks must really go to Patrick, for the work he did decreasing the spam. I 
only maintain what he set up.

Thanks Patrick!

Nina

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From barbarasiomos38 at webtv.net  Tue Aug 17 14:46:57 2004
From: barbarasiomos38 at webtv.net (Barbara Siomos)
Date: Tue Aug 17 14:47:11 2004
Subject: [Mb-hair] Re: A Message from Michael Butler
In-Reply-To: "myelvis4u@flash.net" <myelvis4u@flash.net>'s message of Tue,
	17 Aug 2004 15:58:31 -0400
Message-ID: <25743-41227CD1-5614@storefull-3218.bay.webtv.net>

Seems like YOU were on a gracious receiving end of Rado and McD. and
perhaps would feel differently if you were not. Also for them to treat
Michael as they did after he put so much into it is disrespectful to him
financially and emotionally, he deserves better. It is not just that McD
did not show up he could have at least offered a reason, the whole deal
as it went down is just not honoring a man who has put so much of his
life into that show, as I said before disrespectful to a kind human
being.

I have nothing against Mr. Rado or Mr. McD and they deserve to move on
with other projects if they so chose, but they could have been kinder
and showed some of the love they expect us to feel from the show...how
is that possible now?

I agree with WMH it is time for Michael B. to move on but that is not
easy for anyone after putting years and loads of money into a project. 

peace,
barbara
>From: "myelvis4u@flash.net"
><myelvis4u@flash.net> 
>To: mb-hair@islandlists.com 
>Subject: RE: [Mb-hair] Re: A Message from
>Michael Butler 
>Date: Tue, Aug 17, 2004, 3:58pm
Hello Walter,
 
??that was very lovely and well put. 
??I agree and feel with you for Michael B. 
??We should, however, not judge too soon, and in reply to Barbara's
later message - 
not become vicious. 
What she wrote is a bit harsh.
 
??Although I don't know the reasons behind Rado's decision, and it
is not up to me to agree or disagree with it - 
he is still one of the authors who made all this possible. I'm sure
money is not his main motive. 
??And as to Galt, he's moved on to other projects, is still creating
new music 
and HAIR is just one part of his very full life. Who knows why he
couldn't be at the auditions. Ask him! 
He certainly came to Vienna for the opening of HAIR there, and so did
Rado. I met them there. 
They were both still very much connected to the
musical and its message.  Dagmar

From myelvis4u at flash.net  Wed Aug 18 22:35:51 2004
From: myelvis4u at flash.net (myelvis4u@flash.net)
Date: Wed Aug 18 22:36:08 2004
Subject: [Mb-hair] Hair Archives and Bill Swiggard in the news
Message-ID: <181220-22004841953551577@M2W052.mail2web.com>



Hi Nina and all,

You never know where HAIR 'curls and locks' will be blown by the winds...
 did you know that Donna Summer's first husband, Helmut Sommer (AHA, that's 
where her name comes from!)
- an Austrian and father of Donna's first daughter Mimi,  left the theater
to become a 
dentist?
He's practicing in Vienna, where he lives with his second wife and three
cute kids.

I always thought it was very funny - my warped sense of humor, perhaps? -
since 
there's a line in HAIR about NOT wanting to become a dentist or a lawyer....

Dagmar

PS: I'd love to see these photos!

Original Message:
-----------------
From: Little Birdie lbirdie@hotmail.com
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:58:34 +0000
To: mb-hair@islandlists.com
Subject: [Mb-hair] Hair Archives and Bill Swiggard in the news


Hello all -

A great cover article in the magazine section of a western New England 
newspaper, on our favorite Claude turned AIDS doctor Bill Swiggard:

http://www.dailyhampshiregazette.com/storytmp.cfm?id_no=8130051

Be sure and also read the accompanying article "From the Stage To The 
Clinic", which talks about how he went from Hair to being a doctor, and 
includes a brief interview with a certain Hair archivist (linked from the 
end of the above article, or click this link):

http://www.dailyhampshiregazette.com/storytmp.cfm?id_no=8130078

There were many great photos that are not online (including one of me 
surrounded by Hair memorabilia). I hope to get them scanned and online in 
the not too distant future for those of you who want to see what we all
look 
like these days.

Enjoy!
Nina

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From barbarasiomos38 at webtv.net  Sat Aug 21 09:57:04 2004
From: barbarasiomos38 at webtv.net (Barbara Siomos)
Date: Sat Aug 21 09:57:22 2004
Subject: [Mb-hair] New York City - Photos: Statue of Liberty & John Lennon
Message-ID: <13040-41277EE0-5146@storefull-3212.bay.webtv.net>

Came across this picture on the web and had to share.... 

peace,
barbara

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From olhippie at tampabay.rr.com  Sat Aug 21 12:46:49 2004
From: olhippie at tampabay.rr.com (Robin McNamara)
Date: Sat Aug 21 12:46:58 2004
Subject: [Mb-hair] Fw: [Mb-civic] FW: EYE OF GOD
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From goodhairdays at yahoo.com  Sat Aug 21 13:50:59 2004
From: goodhairdays at yahoo.com (Jonathon Johnson)
Date: Sat Aug 21 13:51:04 2004
Subject: [Mb-hair] Fw: [Mb-civic] FW: EYE OF GOD
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Very cool. Thanks Robin.
 
Love ~ Jonathon

Robin McNamara <olhippie@tampabay.rr.com> wrote:
Hey Tribe
 
I am not sure if this ever made it to thr Hair list.
 
Love forever
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From: goodhairdays at yahoo.com (Jonathon Johnson)
Date: Sat Aug 21 13:52:17 2004
Subject: [Mb-hair] New York City - Photos: Statue of Liberty & John Lennon
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Thanks for sharing Barbara. John's always been a favorite of mine.
 
Love ~ Jonathon

Barbara Siomos <barbarasiomos38@webtv.net> wrote:
Came across this picture on the web and had to share.... 

peace,
barbara

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From olhippie at tampabay.rr.com  Sat Aug 21 14:23:31 2004
From: olhippie at tampabay.rr.com (Robin McNamara)
Date: Sat Aug 21 14:23:28 2004
Subject: [Mb-hair] New York City - Photos: Statue of Liberty & John Lennon
References: <13040-41277EE0-5146@storefull-3212.bay.webtv.net>
Message-ID: <004e01c487c5$1bcf6420$3e022341@YOUR5F5932F0DA>

Barbra

John's spirit lives,thanks.

Love forever
Robin



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Barbara Siomos" <barbarasiomos38@webtv.net>
To: <mb-civic@islandlists.com>; <mb-hair@islandlists.com>
Sent: Saturday, August 21, 2004 12:57 PM
Subject: [Mb-hair] New York City - Photos: Statue of Liberty & John Lennon


> Came across this picture on the web and had to share....
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> peace,
> barbara
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From dauber at banana-and-louie.org  Sat Aug 21 15:18:15 2004
From: dauber at banana-and-louie.org (Sean Courtney)
Date: Sat Aug 21 15:18:30 2004
Subject: [Mb-hair] New York City - Photos: Statue of Liberty & John Lennon
In-Reply-To: <20040821205203.9425.qmail@web53408.mail.yahoo.com>
References: <20040821205203.9425.qmail@web53408.mail.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <1093126695.4127ca2706921@208.179.130.60>

Quoting Jonathon Johnson <goodhairdays@yahoo.com>:

> Thanks for sharing Barbara. John's always been a favorite of mine.
>
> Love ~ Jonathon
>
> Barbara Siomos <barbarasiomos38@webtv.net> wrote:
> Came across this picture on the web and had to share....

John was murdered when I was a little kid, didn't know who he was, nor do I
remember that day...but I miss him terribly.

BTW -- I'm posting this live from Beatlefest right now...(thank God for my
wife's laptop and the hotel's new high-speed access!) they have posters and
t-shirts of John and the statue all over the place -- but that link Barbara
posted has the only COLOR picture of that that I've ever seen.
From dauber at banana-and-louie.org  Sat Aug 21 15:19:30 2004
From: dauber at banana-and-louie.org (Sean Courtney)
Date: Sat Aug 21 15:19:45 2004
Subject: [Mb-hair] New York City - Photos: Statue of Liberty & John Lennon
In-Reply-To: <004e01c487c5$1bcf6420$3e022341@YOUR5F5932F0DA>
References: <13040-41277EE0-5146@storefull-3212.bay.webtv.net>
	<004e01c487c5$1bcf6420$3e022341@YOUR5F5932F0DA>
Message-ID: <1093126770.4127ca729e5e8@208.179.130.60>

Quoting Robin McNamara <olhippie@tampabay.rr.com>:

> John's spirit lives,thanks.

Robin, you are NOT kidding in the least. If you ever question whether John is
still here, go to NYC and take a subway ride to 72nd and Central Park West and
go to Strawberry Fields. And bring something to dry your eyes with, too.
From djbrook at hevanet.com  Sat Aug 21 17:37:59 2004
From: djbrook at hevanet.com (Doris J. Brook)
Date: Sat Aug 21 20:39:31 2004
Subject: [Mb-hair] New York City - Photos: Statue of Liberty & John Lennon
References: <20040821205203.9425.qmail@web53408.mail.yahoo.com>
	<1093126695.4127ca2706921@208.179.130.60>
Message-ID: <00d801c487e0$46e05eb0$64153dc0@djb>


Sean Courtney wrote:
>
> John was murdered when I was a little kid, didn't know who he was, nor do
I
> remember that day...but I miss him terribly.
>
    I've always loved that picture of John and somewhere have a few b&W
postcards of it.  I do remember when John died- I was living in France and
heard the news from a classmate who'd picked it up from the BBC- I was in
complete denial at first, John Lennon shot? Well he'll be okay, how can he
be truly hurt?  Over the next 24 hours my best friend and I went into a
terrible state of shock and grief and weeping.  Also drank a shitload of
cheap red wine...When Yoko held the candlelight vigil several days later, we
went to a park in the rain and the dark by ourselves and kept our tiny sole
candle alight.  The French are a funny people- if it's not one of theirs,
they don't get too upset by it, but the radio did play non-stop Beatles and
Lennon.  Never felt quite so homesick as in those dark December days.
Growing up in NYC, I felt like John was part of my extended world.  One
night in highschool (about 1976) two friends and I were coming home very
late from a party in Brooklyn (a St. Ann's party, Nina!)  and we got out of
the subway at Broadway and 72nd to get a cab the rest of the way home.
There's a newstand at that subway stop on a little island in the middle of
Broadway, and as we were standing there waiting, one of my friends said,
Don't look but that's John Lennon.  So naturally we all turned and looked,
and sure enough, there he was, picking up his NY Times for the next morning.
This long moment passed between us,  my friends and I looking at him, and
him looking back at us as if to say, Yes, I know that you know that I know
you know I'm John Lennon, but I also know that you're too cool to act stupid
about it.  What a rush!  I've always treasured that encounter- there are
some perks to growing up in NYC (like seeing Hair 44 times...).

I'm smiling inside.

love to all,
Doris

From olhippie at tampabay.rr.com  Sun Aug 22 02:41:17 2004
From: olhippie at tampabay.rr.com (Robin McNamara)
Date: Sun Aug 22 02:41:23 2004
Subject: [Mb-hair] Fw: [Mb-civic] !!!!!!
Message-ID: <002701c4882c$2c8ccca0$3e022341@YOUR5F5932F0DA>

Hey Tribe

Check it out this was sent to "civic".

Love forever
Robin


----- Original Message ----- 
From: Ian 
To: Civic 
Sent: Saturday, August 21, 2004 6:03 PM
Subject: [Mb-civic] !!!!!!


For anyone who ever partook of illicit substances - especially those that caused visual or auditory hallucinations - you absolutely, positively must see and hear this!!  If you still partake, do so - heavily.  If not, just let it bring you back to a "simpler" time...

The film takes about 7 minutes, so make sure you have that time (i.e., don't try watching this in the office...)  Remember to turn your speakers on.

This really is a work of genius.  Stay with it; you won't be sorry.

Peace.  (And happy trails...)

http://w1.736.telia.com/~u73602493/flashback.html




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From peacefreak at metrocast.net  Sun Aug 22 18:17:05 2004
From: peacefreak at metrocast.net (Leo Lunser)
Date: Sun Aug 22 15:17:04 2004
Subject: [Mb-hair] Re: Flashback
References: <200408221900.i7MJ050t014564@dune.islandtechnologies.net>
Message-ID: <000d01c488ae$e7f50ca0$6501a8c0@f1n9i3>

That was outasite Robin; thanks for passing it along!!

PEACE,
Leo

> Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2004 05:41:17 -0400
> From: "Robin McNamara" <olhippie@tampabay.rr.com>
> Subject: [Mb-hair] Fw: [Mb-civic] !!!!!!
> To: <mb-hair@islandemail.com>
> Message-ID: <002701c4882c$2c8ccca0$3e022341@YOUR5F5932F0DA>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
> 
> Hey Tribe
> 
> Check it out this was sent to "civic".
> 
> Love forever
> Robin
> 
> http://w1.736.telia.com/~u73602493/flashback.html
> 

From LilacAmy11 at aol.com  Sun Aug 22 20:02:49 2004
From: LilacAmy11 at aol.com (LilacAmy11@aol.com)
Date: Sun Aug 22 20:02:58 2004
Subject: [Mb-hair] Fw: [Mb-civic] FW: EYE OF GOD
Message-ID: <8.5574b9ee.2e5ab859@aol.com>

That was awesome:) Thanks

-amy
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From mygal514 at msn.com  Mon Aug 23 12:44:48 2004
From: mygal514 at msn.com (glenn lucas)
Date: Mon Aug 23 12:45:02 2004
Subject: [Mb-hair] re: flashbacks
Message-ID: <BAY5-F11hLPBLYdWoVQ0005ebd0@hotmail.com>

not only outa site...would LOVE to be on what he was on...! (;-}>

Peace,
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From cararobindesign at hotmail.com  Mon Aug 23 13:24:00 2004
From: cararobindesign at hotmail.com (Cara Robin)
Date: Mon Aug 23 13:24:04 2004
Subject: [Mb-hair] Fw: [Mb-civic] FW: EYE OF GOD
Message-ID: <BAY9-F22PBXZAdIkCXi00046537@hotmail.com>

Thanks Robin - awesome.
Good to receive mail from you - was hoping you all made it thru the 
hurricane ok - guess so!
Love,
Cara


From: "Robin McNamara" <olhippie@tampabay.rr.com>
Reply-To: mb-hair@islandlists.com
To: <mb-hair@islandemail.com>
Subject: [Mb-hair] Fw: [Mb-civic] FW: EYE OF GOD
Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2004 15:46:49 -0400

FW: EYE OF GODHey Tribe

I am not sure if this ever made it to thr Hair list.

Love forever
Robin






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From olhippie at tampabay.rr.com  Mon Aug 23 14:29:00 2004
From: olhippie at tampabay.rr.com (Robin McNamara)
Date: Mon Aug 23 14:28:58 2004
Subject: [Mb-hair] Fw: [Mb-civic] FW: EYE OF GOD
References: <BAY9-F22PBXZAdIkCXi00046537@hotmail.com>
Message-ID: <000901c48958$34f7a9f0$3e022341@YOUR5F5932F0DA>

Thanks Cara

Yes they were pedicting the storm's eye to go right over the Tampa bay area
where I live but then it turned toward the right & stuck approx. 75miles to
the South of us, We did get some nasty effects but nothing like what was
originally predicted thank God. We " dodged a bullet" as they say. :)

Love forever
Robin






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From: "Cara Robin" <cararobindesign@hotmail.com>
To: <mb-hair@islandlists.com>
Sent: Monday, August 23, 2004 4:24 PM
Subject: RE: [Mb-hair] Fw: [Mb-civic] FW: EYE OF GOD


> Thanks Robin - awesome.
> Good to receive mail from you - was hoping you all made it thru the
> hurricane ok - guess so!
> Love,
> Cara
>
>
> From: "Robin McNamara" <olhippie@tampabay.rr.com>
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> To: <mb-hair@islandemail.com>
> Subject: [Mb-hair] Fw: [Mb-civic] FW: EYE OF GOD
> Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2004 15:46:49 -0400
>
> FW: EYE OF GODHey Tribe
>
> I am not sure if this ever made it to thr Hair list.
>
> Love forever
> Robin
>
>
>
>
>
>
>      NASA CALLS IT THE EYE OF GOD
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>      THIS IS A PICTURE NASA TOOK WITH THE HUBBLE TELESCOPE..
>
>
>      IT IS SIMPLY CALLED "THE EYE OF GOD".
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From mygal514 at msn.com  Tue Aug 24 12:52:11 2004
From: mygal514 at msn.com (glenn lucas)
Date: Tue Aug 24 12:52:18 2004
Subject: [Mb-hair] re:EYE OF GOD
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whatever the site is, i wish it could be re-sent...i never got an address to 
look...

thanks & Peace
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Date: Mon Aug 30 15:02:03 2004
Subject: [Mb-hair] NYTimes.com Article: NPR&#39;
	s Growing Clout Alarms Member Stations 
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 and FLIRTING WITH DISASTER comes an existential comedy
 starring Dustin Hoffman, Isabelle Hupert, Jude Law, Jason
 Schwartzman, Lily Tomlin, Mark Wahlberg and Naomi Watts.
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NPR&#39;s Growing Clout Alarms Member Stations

August 30, 2004
 By LYNETTE CLEMETSON 



 

WASHINGTON, Aug. 29 - With a newly robust endowment burning
holes in its not-for-profit pockets, National Public Radio
is in the midst of a major expansion. But NPR's ambition
has stirred anxiety within the public radio system over how
to preserve the character and financial viability of local
stations in the ever larger shadow of the national
production service they created more than 30 years ago as a
modest support operation. 

NPR, a member organization governed in part by local
stations, is pumping $15 million into its news division
over the next three years, using interest from a recent
bequest of more than $236 million from Joan B. Kroc, the
widow of Ray A. Kroc of McDonald's. NPR executives have
touted the expansion as unmatched in a time of media
cutbacks and consolidations. 

But at a meeting earlier this month in Los Angeles between
NPR executives and station managers from the top 25 radio
markets to discuss cultivating future major gifts, the NPR
team faced a flurry of pointed questions about its
long-term intentions. 

Among the questions, according to several station
representatives: Was NPR trying to woo away coveted local
donors? What, if anything, would NPR give to member
stations from the Kroc endowment? And what about rumors
that NPR was considering taking its top-rated shows to
satellite radio? 

"The local stations created NPR as a newsgathering
organization for us," said Alan Chartock, president and
chief executive of WAMC Northeast Public Radio, a regional
network that serves seven states from Pennsylvania to
Vermont. "If the tail is now wagging the dog to literally
compete with us, then we have to protect ourselves." 

Kevin Klose, the president and chief executive of NPR, said
it was merely responding to an increased appetite for the
type of wide-ranging, in-depth news that public radio can
provide. NPR's audience has doubled in the past 10 years to
roughly 22 million listeners a week, according to Arbitron.


"We want to be the authoritative source for broadcast
journalism in this country," Mr. Klose said, "the place
people go to first." 

The first fruits of the expansion will become evident soon.
To cover more breaking news and to provide more
investigative and analytical reporting, NPR is spending $4
million this year for everything from domestic beat
reporters to expanded foreign bureaus to pricey satellite
telephones that transmit higher quality sound. 

Many public radio executives contend that NPR's growth
offers potential benefits for all players. While people are
spending less time listening to radio over all, public
radio's share of radio listenership is up, from roughly 1
percent 20 years ago to more than 5 percent of all
listeners today, according to the Station Resource Group, a
public radio strategy and analysis organization. 

Much of the anxiety about NPR's growth has less to do with
changes at NPR than with broader changes on the radio
landscape. 

Satellite radio companies are fast expanding their services
to include channels with public-radio-like content and
sensibility. Last month XM Satellite Radio - the largest
satellite operator, with 2.1 million subscribers -
announced that it had hired Bob Edwards, the former host of
NPR's flagship news program "Morning Edition," for a
competing morning broadcast. 

That move sparked fears among public radio stations that
NPR, to remain competitive, might consider offering
"Morning Edition" and its other staple, "All Things
Considered," to Sirius Satellite Radio, XM's rival. The two
NPR-produced programs are keys to sustaining listenership
and fund-raising for many public radio stations, which pay
millions in annual dues and programming fees to NPR to
support their production. 

"These programs have required an enormous public
investment," said Ruth Seymour, general manager of KCRW in
Santa Monica, Calif. "To simply sell them to a commercial
entity is completely against the principles of public
radio." 

NPR has a contract to program two Sirius channels, NPR Talk
and NPR Now. But Mr. Klose said there were no plans to add
the top-rated news programs to its satellite lineup against
station wishes. "We will respond to the will of the
system," he said. "And the will of the system right now is
that they should be where they are." 

Still, executives at both NPR and the two satellite
companies speak of their continuing flirtation as something
that will eventually bloom into a more serious
relationship. 

Jay Clark, executive vice president of programming at
Sirius, said he hoped to add NPR's top programs to his
schedule "down the line." And XM is poised to approach NPR
when its contract with Sirius expires in 2007. 

"I love 'Morning Edition' and 'All Thing Considered,' "
said Hugh Panero, XM's president and chief executive. "I
would love, when it becomes appropriate, to explore having
them on XM Satellite Radio, and I hope NPR would be open to
exploring making them available to the largest possible
audience." 

As stations confront inevitable changes in the structure
and distribution of public radio, they are also being
forced to examine their own reliance on NPR. While local
stations created NPR in 1970 to act as a centralized
producer and distributor to supplement their own
programming, it now provides up to half of the content for
many of the more than 770 stations that make up the
country's public radio system. 

For years stations have sought to diversify their
programming options. Public Radio International, which was
also created by stations and has become NPR's primary
competitor, markets and distributes programs produced by
local stations, like "Marketplace," the popular business
and economics report produced by Minnesota Public Radio,
and Michael Feldman's "Whad'Ya Know," a weekly
entertainment show produced by Wisconsin Public Radio. 

This year Minnesota Public Radio moved to strengthen its
position as a content provider by forming American Public
Media, which independently distributes programs like
Garrison Keillor's "Prairie Home Companion." 

But the newer national distributors, too, are changing with
the times. Both Public Radio International and American
Public Media are providing content for satellite radio. 

"Listeners are embracing new technologies," said Jim
Russell, general manager of American Public Media West and
the creator of "Marketplace." "If you don't get on the
train, it's going to leave the station. It's as if the
makers and users are stretching their arms trying to reach
one another in new ways, and in the middle there are the
stations trying to figure out an economic model to make the
new reality work." 

To remain viable, many managers say that their local
stations must gain more leverage vis-à-vis NPR by producing
and promoting more of the kind of distinctive, localized
programs and segments that help shape public radio's
eclectic character. 

"We have to work very hard to make sure NPR sees our
relationship as a joint partnership and an opportunity to
work together as opposed to them being highly resourced and
the stations being merely a vehicle to transmit their
programs," said Laura Walker, president and chief executive
of WNYC in New York. "I think the jury is still out as to
whether they get it. But I'm hoping that they will." 

After building for years, the imbalance in resources
between local stations and NPR has been exacerbated by the
Kroc endowment. The donation was facilitated by Ms. Kroc's
long relationship with her local public radio station, KPBS
in San Diego. The gift, and the future development that it
has made possible, Mr. Klose said, made NPR executives
realize that there should be a joint strategic plan with
the stations to cultivate other major donations. 

One idea thrown out by Mr. Klose and others at the meeting
in Los Angeles was to allow NPR to court donors in local
markets more directly. "We may have 22 million listeners,
but we can't tell you who they are," he said. "The stations
have those databases. The Joan Kroc gift demonstrates that
there is potential for fund-raising out there in the
country that we need to explore." 

Talk of directly courting local benefactors left many at
the meeting squeamish. 

"NPR has had its appetite whet by this gift," said Torey
Malatia, president and general manager of Chicago Public
Radio. "It's kind of stunning to many of us in the system,
because having that kind of money in the endowment is like
a dream. But all it's done is create a scramble for even
more. Now they want to know if there is a way to come into
communities to meet people, wine and dine them and get more
gifts." 

Mr. Malatia and other station managers say that NPR's
growth is ultimately good for the entire public radio
system but that it will require a shift in the way stations
and NPR view and work with one another. 

Many in public radio speak of the system as a big,
dysfunctional but close-knit and loyal family. That
perspective, Mr. Malatia said, is perilously out of step
with the times. 

"NPR has gotten so good that it needs to be managed as a
business, rather than as a familial adjunct to stations,"
he said. "Many of us have been caught sleeping, and we have
to get moving, so that we can stand with NPR, each of us
doing something distinct, but the sum of which amounts to
an irreplaceable public service." 

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/30/arts/30npr.html?ex=1094903314&ei=1&en=560556ac41490b2b


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From raesing4u at yahoo.com  Mon Aug 30 22:13:31 2004
From: raesing4u at yahoo.com (rachel anderson)
Date: Mon Aug 30 22:13:50 2004
Subject: [Mb-hair] NYTimes.com Article: NPR' s Growing Clout Alarms Member
	Stations 
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michael...its krishna...rachel....i havent seen you or spoken to you in so long!  i went to see hair in silverlake on saturday night...and it made me miss old times!  how are you?  love, peace, and harmony.

The article below from NYTimes.com 
has been sent to you by michael@intrafi.com.



/--------- E-mail Sponsored by Fox Searchlight ------------\

I HEART HUCKABEES - OPENING IN SELECT CITIES OCTOBER 1

>From David O. Russell, writer and director of THREE KINGS
and FLIRTING WITH DISASTER comes an existential comedy
starring Dustin Hoffman, Isabelle Hupert, Jude Law, Jason
Schwartzman, Lily Tomlin, Mark Wahlberg and Naomi Watts.
Watch the trailer now at:

http://www.foxsearchlight.com/huckabees/index_nyt.html

\----------------------------------------------------------/


NPR's Growing Clout Alarms Member Stations

August 30, 2004
By LYNETTE CLEMETSON 





WASHINGTON, Aug. 29 - With a newly robust endowment burning
holes in its not-for-profit pockets, National Public Radio
is in the midst of a major expansion. But NPR's ambition
has stirred anxiety within the public radio system over how
to preserve the character and financial viability of local
stations in the ever larger shadow of the national
production service they created more than 30 years ago as a
modest support operation. 

NPR, a member organization governed in part by local
stations, is pumping $15 million into its news division
over the next three years, using interest from a recent
bequest of more than $236 million from Joan B. Kroc, the
widow of Ray A. Kroc of McDonald's. NPR executives have
touted the expansion as unmatched in a time of media
cutbacks and consolidations. 

But at a meeting earlier this month in Los Angeles between
NPR executives and station managers from the top 25 radio
markets to discuss cultivating future major gifts, the NPR
team faced a flurry of pointed questions about its
long-term intentions. 

Among the questions, according to several station
representatives: Was NPR trying to woo away coveted local
donors? What, if anything, would NPR give to member
stations from the Kroc endowment? And what about rumors
that NPR was considering taking its top-rated shows to
satellite radio? 

"The local stations created NPR as a newsgathering
organization for us," said Alan Chartock, president and
chief executive of WAMC Northeast Public Radio, a regional
network that serves seven states from Pennsylvania to
Vermont. "If the tail is now wagging the dog to literally
compete with us, then we have to protect ourselves." 

Kevin Klose, the president and chief executive of NPR, said
it was merely responding to an increased appetite for the
type of wide-ranging, in-depth news that public radio can
provide. NPR's audience has doubled in the past 10 years to
roughly 22 million listeners a week, according to Arbitron.


"We want to be the authoritative source for broadcast
journalism in this country," Mr. Klose said, "the place
people go to first." 

The first fruits of the expansion will become evident soon.
To cover more breaking news and to provide more
investigative and analytical reporting, NPR is spending $4
million this year for everything from domestic beat
reporters to expanded foreign bureaus to pricey satellite
telephones that transmit higher quality sound. 

Many public radio executives contend that NPR's growth
offers potential benefits for all players. While people are
spending less time listening to radio over all, public
radio's share of radio listenership is up, from roughly 1
percent 20 years ago to more than 5 percent of all
listeners today, according to the Station Resource Group, a
public radio strategy and analysis organization. 

Much of the anxiety about NPR's growth has less to do with
changes at NPR than with broader changes on the radio
landscape. 

Satellite radio companies are fast expanding their services
to include channels with public-radio-like content and
sensibility. Last month XM Satellite Radio - the largest
satellite operator, with 2.1 million subscribers -
announced that it had hired Bob Edwards, the former host of
NPR's flagship news program "Morning Edition," for a
competing morning broadcast. 

That move sparked fears among public radio stations that
NPR, to remain competitive, might consider offering
"Morning Edition" and its other staple, "All Things
Considered," to Sirius Satellite Radio, XM's rival. The two
NPR-produced programs are keys to sustaining listenership
and fund-raising for many public radio stations, which pay
millions in annual dues and programming fees to NPR to
support their production. 

"These programs have required an enormous public
investment," said Ruth Seymour, general manager of KCRW in
Santa Monica, Calif. "To simply sell them to a commercial
entity is completely against the principles of public
radio." 

NPR has a contract to program two Sirius channels, NPR Talk
and NPR Now. But Mr. Klose said there were no plans to add
the top-rated news programs to its satellite lineup against
station wishes. "We will respond to the will of the
system," he said. "And the will of the system right now is
that they should be where they are." 

Still, executives at both NPR and the two satellite
companies speak of their continuing flirtation as something
that will eventually bloom into a more serious
relationship. 

Jay Clark, executive vice president of programming at
Sirius, said he hoped to add NPR's top programs to his
schedule "down the line." And XM is poised to approach NPR
when its contract with Sirius expires in 2007. 

"I love 'Morning Edition' and 'All Thing Considered,' "
said Hugh Panero, XM's president and chief executive. "I
would love, when it becomes appropriate, to explore having
them on XM Satellite Radio, and I hope NPR would be open to
exploring making them available to the largest possible
audience." 

As stations confront inevitable changes in the structure
and distribution of public radio, they are also being
forced to examine their own reliance on NPR. While local
stations created NPR in 1970 to act as a centralized
producer and distributor to supplement their own
programming, it now provides up to half of the content for
many of the more than 770 stations that make up the
country's public radio system. 

For years stations have sought to diversify their
programming options. Public Radio International, which was
also created by stations and has become NPR's primary
competitor, markets and distributes programs produced by
local stations, like "Marketplace," the popular business
and economics report produced by Minnesota Public Radio,
and Michael Feldman's "Whad'Ya Know," a weekly
entertainment show produced by Wisconsin Public Radio. 

This year Minnesota Public Radio moved to strengthen its
position as a content provider by forming American Public
Media, which independently distributes programs like
Garrison Keillor's "Prairie Home Companion." 

But the newer national distributors, too, are changing with
the times. Both Public Radio International and American
Public Media are providing content for satellite radio. 

"Listeners are embracing new technologies," said Jim
Russell, general manager of American Public Media West and
the creator of "Marketplace." "If you don't get on the
train, it's going to leave the station. It's as if the
makers and users are stretching their arms trying to reach
one another in new ways, and in the middle there are the
stations trying to figure out an economic model to make the
new reality work." 

To remain viable, many managers say that their local
stations must gain more leverage vis-à-vis NPR by producing
and promoting more of the kind of distinctive, localized
programs and segments that help shape public radio's
eclectic character. 

"We have to work very hard to make sure NPR sees our
relationship as a joint partnership and an opportunity to
work together as opposed to them being highly resourced and
the stations being merely a vehicle to transmit their
programs," said Laura Walker, president and chief executive
of WNYC in New York. "I think the jury is still out as to
whether they get it. But I'm hoping that they will." 

After building for years, the imbalance in resources
between local stations and NPR has been exacerbated by the
Kroc endowment. The donation was facilitated by Ms. Kroc's
long relationship with her local public radio station, KPBS
in San Diego. The gift, and the future development that it
has made possible, Mr. Klose said, made NPR executives
realize that there should be a joint strategic plan with
the stations to cultivate other major donations. 

One idea thrown out by Mr. Klose and others at the meeting
in Los Angeles was to allow NPR to court donors in local
markets more directly. "We may have 22 million listeners,
but we can't tell you who they are," he said. "The stations
have those databases. The Joan Kroc gift demonstrates that
there is potential for fund-raising out there in the
country that we need to explore." 

Talk of directly courting local benefactors left many at
the meeting squeamish. 

"NPR has had its appetite whet by this gift," said Torey
Malatia, president and general manager of Chicago Public
Radio. "It's kind of stunning to many of us in the system,
because having that kind of money in the endowment is like
a dream. But all it's done is create a scramble for even
more. Now they want to know if there is a way to come into
communities to meet people, wine and dine them and get more
gifts." 

Mr. Malatia and other station managers say that NPR's
growth is ultimately good for the entire public radio
system but that it will require a shift in the way stations
and NPR view and work with one another. 

Many in public radio speak of the system as a big,
dysfunctional but close-knit and loyal family. That
perspective, Mr. Malatia said, is perilously out of step
with the times. 

"NPR has gotten so good that it needs to be managed as a
business, rather than as a familial adjunct to stations,"
he said. "Many of us have been caught sleeping, and we have
to get moving, so that we can stand with NPR, each of us
doing something distinct, but the sum of which amounts to
an irreplaceable public service." 

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From: michael at michaelbutler.com (Michael Butler)
Date: Tue Aug 31 10:12:05 2004
Subject: [Mb-hair] NYTimes.com Article: NPR' s Growing Clout Alarms
	Member Stations 
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Krishna/Rachel,
So good to hear from you. I also saw the HAIR at Knightsbridge. Nice show
brings back memories.  Just heard from Artyom, sending some songs, wanting
to come here. He was also asking for Brian's address which I do not have. Do
you?
Hope you are well. I am and working, loving life.
Peace and Love,
Michael
-- "A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only
exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largess
from the public treasury. From that time on the majority always votes
for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury,
with the results that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal
policy, always followed by a dictatorship.?
Sir Alexander Fraser Tytler (Lord Woodhouselee) (1747-1813)
RLW/Chicago



> michael...its krishna...rachel....i havent seen you or spoken to you in so
> long!  i went to see hair in silverlake on saturday night...and it made me
> miss old times!  how are you?  love, peace, and harmony.
> 
> The article below from NYTimes.com
> has been sent to you by michael@intrafi.com.
> 
> 
> 
> /--------- E-mail Sponsored by Fox Searchlight ------------\
> 
> I HEART HUCKABEES - OPENING IN SELECT CITIES OCTOBER 1
> 
>> From David O. Russell, writer and director of THREE KINGS
> and FLIRTING WITH DISASTER comes an existential comedy
> starring Dustin Hoffman, Isabelle Hupert, Jude Law, Jason
> Schwartzman, Lily Tomlin, Mark Wahlberg and Naomi Watts.
> Watch the trailer now at:
> 
> http://www.foxsearchlight.com/huckabees/index_nyt.html
> 
> \----------------------------------------------------------/
> 
> 
> NPR's Growing Clout Alarms Member Stations
> 
> August 30, 2004
> By LYNETTE CLEMETSON
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> WASHINGTON, Aug. 29 - With a newly robust endowment burning
> holes in its not-for-profit pockets, National Public Radio
> is in the midst of a major expansion. But NPR's ambition
> has stirred anxiety within the public radio system over how
> to preserve the character and financial viability of local
> stations in the ever larger shadow of the national
> production service they created more than 30 years ago as a
> modest support operation.
> 
> NPR, a member organization governed in part by local
> stations, is pumping $15 million into its news division
> over the next three years, using interest from a recent
> bequest of more than $236 million from Joan B. Kroc, the
> widow of Ray A. Kroc of McDonald's. NPR executives have
> touted the expansion as unmatched in a time of media
> cutbacks and consolidations.
> 
> But at a meeting earlier this month in Los Angeles between
> NPR executives and station managers from the top 25 radio
> markets to discuss cultivating future major gifts, the NPR
> team faced a flurry of pointed questions about its
> long-term intentions.
> 
> Among the questions, according to several station
> representatives: Was NPR trying to woo away coveted local
> donors? What, if anything, would NPR give to member
> stations from the Kroc endowment? And what about rumors
> that NPR was considering taking its top-rated shows to
> satellite radio? 
> 
> "The local stations created NPR as a newsgathering
> organization for us," said Alan Chartock, president and
> chief executive of WAMC Northeast Public Radio, a regional
> network that serves seven states from Pennsylvania to
> Vermont. "If the tail is now wagging the dog to literally
> compete with us, then we have to protect ourselves."
> 
> Kevin Klose, the president and chief executive of NPR, said
> it was merely responding to an increased appetite for the
> type of wide-ranging, in-depth news that public radio can
> provide. NPR's audience has doubled in the past 10 years to
> roughly 22 million listeners a week, according to Arbitron.
> 
> 
> "We want to be the authoritative source for broadcast
> journalism in this country," Mr. Klose said, "the place
> people go to first."
> 
> The first fruits of the expansion will become evident soon.
> To cover more breaking news and to provide more
> investigative and analytical reporting, NPR is spending $4
> million this year for everything from domestic beat
> reporters to expanded foreign bureaus to pricey satellite
> telephones that transmit higher quality sound.
> 
> Many public radio executives contend that NPR's growth
> offers potential benefits for all players. While people are
> spending less time listening to radio over all, public
> radio's share of radio listenership is up, from roughly 1
> percent 20 years ago to more than 5 percent of all
> listeners today, according to the Station Resource Group, a
> public radio strategy and analysis organization.
> 
> Much of the anxiety about NPR's growth has less to do with
> changes at NPR than with broader changes on the radio
> landscape. 
> 
> Satellite radio companies are fast expanding their services
> to include channels with public-radio-like content and
> sensibility. Last month XM Satellite Radio - the largest
> satellite operator, with 2.1 million subscribers -
> announced that it had hired Bob Edwards, the former host of
> NPR's flagship news program "Morning Edition," for a
> competing morning broadcast.
> 
> That move sparked fears among public radio stations that
> NPR, to remain competitive, might consider offering
> "Morning Edition" and its other staple, "All Things
> Considered," to Sirius Satellite Radio, XM's rival. The two
> NPR-produced programs are keys to sustaining listenership
> and fund-raising for many public radio stations, which pay
> millions in annual dues and programming fees to NPR to
> support their production.
> 
> "These programs have required an enormous public
> investment," said Ruth Seymour, general manager of KCRW in
> Santa Monica, Calif. "To simply sell them to a commercial
> entity is completely against the principles of public
> radio." 
> 
> NPR has a contract to program two Sirius channels, NPR Talk
> and NPR Now. But Mr. Klose said there were no plans to add
> the top-rated news programs to its satellite lineup against
> station wishes. "We will respond to the will of the
> system," he said. "And the will of the system right now is
> that they should be where they are."
> 
> Still, executives at both NPR and the two satellite
> companies speak of their continuing flirtation as something
> that will eventually bloom into a more serious
> relationship. 
> 
> Jay Clark, executive vice president of programming at
> Sirius, said he hoped to add NPR's top programs to his
> schedule "down the line." And XM is poised to approach NPR
> when its contract with Sirius expires in 2007.
> 
> "I love 'Morning Edition' and 'All Thing Considered,' "
> said Hugh Panero, XM's president and chief executive. "I
> would love, when it becomes appropriate, to explore having
> them on XM Satellite Radio, and I hope NPR would be open to
> exploring making them available to the largest possible
> audience." 
> 
> As stations confront inevitable changes in the structure
> and distribution of public radio, they are also being
> forced to examine their own reliance on NPR. While local
> stations created NPR in 1970 to act as a centralized
> producer and distributor to supplement their own
> programming, it now provides up to half of the content for
> many of the more than 770 stations that make up the
> country's public radio system.
> 
> For years stations have sought to diversify their
> programming options. Public Radio International, which was
> also created by stations and has become NPR's primary
> competitor, markets and distributes programs produced by
> local stations, like "Marketplace," the popular business
> and economics report produced by Minnesota Public Radio,
> and Michael Feldman's "Whad'Ya Know," a weekly
> entertainment show produced by Wisconsin Public Radio.
> 
> This year Minnesota Public Radio moved to strengthen its
> position as a content provider by forming American Public
> Media, which independently distributes programs like
> Garrison Keillor's "Prairie Home Companion."
> 
> But the newer national distributors, too, are changing with
> the times. Both Public Radio International and American
> Public Media are providing content for satellite radio.
> 
> "Listeners are embracing new technologies," said Jim
> Russell, general manager of American Public Media West and
> the creator of "Marketplace." "If you don't get on the
> train, it's going to leave the station. It's as if the
> makers and users are stretching their arms trying to reach
> one another in new ways, and in the middle there are the
> stations trying to figure out an economic model to make the
> new reality work."
> 
> To remain viable, many managers say that their local
> stations must gain more leverage vis-?-vis NPR by producing
> and promoting more of the kind of distinctive, localized
> programs and segments that help shape public radio's
> eclectic character.
> 
> "We have to work very hard to make sure NPR sees our
> relationship as a joint partnership and an opportunity to
> work together as opposed to them being highly resourced and
> the stations being merely a vehicle to transmit their
> programs," said Laura Walker, president and chief executive
> of WNYC in New York. "I think the jury is still out as to
> whether they get it. But I'm hoping that they will."
> 
> After building for years, the imbalance in resources
> between local stations and NPR has been exacerbated by the
> Kroc endowment. The donation was facilitated by Ms. Kroc's
> long relationship with her local public radio station, KPBS
> in San Diego. The gift, and the future development that it
> has made possible, Mr. Klose said, made NPR executives
> realize that there should be a joint strategic plan with
> the stations to cultivate other major donations.
> 
> One idea thrown out by Mr. Klose and others at the meeting
> in Los Angeles was to allow NPR to court donors in local
> markets more directly. "We may have 22 million listeners,
> but we can't tell you who they are," he said. "The stations
> have those databases. The Joan Kroc gift demonstrates that
> there is potential for fund-raising out there in the
> country that we need to explore."
> 
> Talk of directly courting local benefactors left many at
> the meeting squeamish.
> 
> "NPR has had its appetite whet by this gift," said Torey
> Malatia, president and general manager of Chicago Public
> Radio. "It's kind of stunning to many of us in the system,
> because having that kind of money in the endowment is like
> a dream. But all it's done is create a scramble for even
> more. Now they want to know if there is a way to come into
> communities to meet people, wine and dine them and get more
> gifts." 
> 
> Mr. Malatia and other station managers say that NPR's
> growth is ultimately good for the entire public radio
> system but that it will require a shift in the way stations
> and NPR view and work with one another.
> 
> Many in public radio speak of the system as a big,
> dysfunctional but close-knit and loyal family. That
> perspective, Mr. Malatia said, is perilously out of step
> with the times. 
> 
> "NPR has gotten so good that it needs to be managed as a
> business, rather than as a familial adjunct to stations,"
> he said. "Many of us have been caught sleeping, and we have
> to get moving, so that we can stand with NPR, each of us
> doing something distinct, but the sum of which amounts to
> an irreplaceable public service."
> 
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