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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Editor’s note: This report includes allegations of sexual and physical abuse.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The federal trial against \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/artists/156679430/r-kelly\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">R. Kelly\u003c/a> in New York is now almost at the end of its fourth week of testimony. Dozens of witnesses for the prosecution, including 11 alleged victims, have appeared on the stand in this case, in which the R&B superstar stands accused of running a criminal enterprise not unlike the mob. In this case, the government says, the purpose of that enterprise was to “prey upon young women and teenagers” and lure them into sexual relationships.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13900892']When jurors were selected early last month, Judge Ann Donnelly told them that the trial would take about a full month after testimony began on Aug. 18. We’re almost at that point already now, and the prosecution is still laying out its argument. We don’t know how many more witnesses the government expects to call, who the defense team is going to put forward, or whether Kelly himself is going to take the stand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It seems exceedingly unlikely, however, that the trial will wrap up in the next few days. And that’s without considering Kelly’s second scheduled federal trial, to take place in Chicago at some future time. There, Kelly will face separate charges of child pornography and obstruction of justice. Kelly has pleaded not guilty to all charges across both federal indictments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’ve attended the trial in Brooklyn on many days. It’s been a strange experience so far, even by the standards of high-profile celebrity cases. Because of COVID protocols, journalists and the public have been assigned to overflow courtrooms, to watch the proceedings via video and audio feeds. Every trial day, hours before the court even opens, R. Kelly supporters line up to snag hotly coveted seats in the overflow areas; multiple \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/vicbekiempis/status/1430136654916997143?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">disputes\u003c/a> over seats and places in line have precipitated the intervention of U.S. marshals and local police. After court ended on Sept. 3, the NYPD \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/emilyepalmer/status/1433842112810860544?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">arrested\u003c/a> one male Kelly supporter who, according to police, was accused of sexually harassing another supporter.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>“Is that a weird shadow?”\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, we journalists covering the trial spend our days peering at tiny figures rendered so small onscreen that even the sketch artists seated in the front row of our overflow courtroom have had considerable difficulty discerning participants’ basic features. (“Is she wearing glasses?” “Does he have a shaved head, or is that just a weird shadow?”) We can’t see the jurors at all, because—again, due to coronavirus protocols—they are seated not in the traditional jury box, but instead spaced out in the gallery, where public observers usually sit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a result, we in the media have no idea how jurors are reacting to the testimony they’re hearing. Is anyone snoozing through long stretches while experts are describing the particulars of cell phone data? When alleged victims burst into tears on the stand, as several have, is anyone in the jury viscerally responding? Are jurors taking notes, or just letting information wash over them? When the defense team brings up the names of Kelly’s former peers and colleagues—for example, the late singer Whitney Houston, whose name has been raised repeatedly—do they seem star-struck?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13901400']None of those kinds of reactions will determine their eventual judgment of innocence or guilt, of course. But body language could provide insights into how they’re feeling at any given time.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Not following the “rules”\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Day in and day out, testimony from witnesses—both those named in the indictment and some who are alleged victims of \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/07/23/1019972507/r-kelly-prosecutors-evidence-more-crimes-bribery-trial\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">“uncharged crimes”\u003c/a> purportedly committed by Kelly—has rung similarly throughout, and much of it has been very difficult to listen to. Six alleged victims described being abused by Kelly while they were minors. Women have detailed being forced into unwanted sexual encounters, sometimes with other people, including strangers. Women have recounted alleged episodes of intense physical and sexual abuse for breaking one of his many “rules.” Women have stated that Kelly had lied to them by claiming he had no STDs, and finding out after the fact that he had given them herpes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both women and \u003ca href=\"https://www.vulture.com/2021/09/r-kelly-trial-week-3-recap-accuser-testimony-aaliyah-marriage.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">men\u003c/a>, who were minors or still teenagers when they met Kelly, have said that either Kelly or one of his associates slipped them his phone number after seeing him somewhere—at a show, at a mall, at a McDonald’s—and wound up as one of his sexual partners. One woman said on the stand that Kelly made her have sex with another man as punishment for breaking his rules, and also forced her to have an abortion. Another described being \u003ca href=\"https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/juliareinstein/r-kelly-trial-victim-imprisoned-drugged-raped\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">raped\u003c/a> backstage at one of the singer’s shows, soon after meeting Kelly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still another, “Angela,” a former back-up dancer for Kelly and a back-up singer for Kelly’s late protégée, Aaliyah, said in testimony Monday that she witnessed Kelly appearing to perform oral sex on Aaliyah when the singer was just 13 or 14 years old. “Angela” appeared in the docuseries \u003cem>Surviving R. Kelly\u003c/em>, but did not make accusations of her own there. On the stand, however, she said that she, too, was sexually abused by Kelly.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>“Zombieish”\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Also on Monday, a man who went by “Alex” in court, but who also was referred to in other testimony by the nickname “Nephew,” recounted being directed by Kelly to have sex with “countless” young women, as well as with Kelly himself, while Kelly recorded them all on video. Alex said he was not allowed to talk to the women or to learn their names. He flatly described the women’s demeanor during their sexual encounters as “zombieish.” Alex also said that he himself was “brainwashed” by Kelly. When asked by a prosecutor, “Why did you do what the defendant told you to do?” Alex hung his head and said, “I actually don’t even know.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='pop_109968']Two experts recently told \u003ca href=\"https://www.insider.com/cult-experts-why-r-kelly-accusers-stayed-despite-alleged-abuse-2021-8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Insider\u003c/em>\u003c/a> that Kelly’s alleged behavior fits that of a cult leader. According to Rick Ross, executive director of the Cult Education Institute, “The women that are under his control, or have been under his control, they’re not functioning independently. He’s engendered dependency upon himself to make value judgments, to critically think, to analyze things—it’s incapacitated these women from being able to think for themselves.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In contrast, the defense team has alternately sought to characterize the women as \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/entertainment-music-arts-and-entertainment-r-kelly-bd42a092620ac9d159a8e6e8e9824e62\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">“groupies\u003c/a>,” or argued that Kelly treated them lavishly, providing them with gifts, trips and spending sprees, while always opening doors for them and standing if they entered a room.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>“Was it MSG?”\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Defense lawyer Devereaux Cannick has repeatedly asked women on the stand \u003ca href=\"https://www.insider.com/r-kelly-lawyer-twerking-sex-crimes-trial-2021-8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">if they twerked\u003c/a> at Kelly’s shows or in his presence, as if dancing suggestively meant that they deserved alleged abuse. Cannick also tried to discredit the allegations of one woman, “Sonja,” who believes that she was drugged and sexually assaulted at Kelly’s home after going there to interview him for a Utah radio station. In her testimony, she said that she’d eaten a few bites of Chinese food shortly before she fell asleep. “Was it MSG?” Cannick asked her during cross-examination, implying that she’d gotten sick because she’d ingested monosodium glutamate, a common amino acid present in everything from tomatoes to Cool Ranch Doritos. (Activists say that anti-MSG sentiments are more about \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/18/asia/chinese-restaurant-syndrome-msg-intl-hnk-scli/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">racism\u003c/a> than about science.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kelly has a team of four lawyers, two of whom have never argued a federal trial before—and it often shows. Just during the defense’s opening statement, for example, Judge Donnelly interrupted defense lawyer Nicole Blank Becker to ask for a sidebar, or sustained objections against her, more than half a dozen times. My media colleagues who are full-time court reporters, who also are covering the Kelly trial, tell me this is very unusual, especially in such a high-profile case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the other hand, the defense has pointed out inconsistencies between what one witness said on the stand during the trial and statements she had made earlier. Another woman brought forward by the prosecution as a former girlfriend of Kelly’s clearly did not want to testify; what she said on the stand didn’t fit certain patterns laid out by other female witnesses, which served the defense’s argument well.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>“It’s a bit misleading to call him a co-lyricist”\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, outside of court, R. Kelly received a songwriting credit on Drake’s new album, \u003cem>Certified Lover Boy\u003c/em>, which dropped earlier this month. The project has earned Drake a \u003ca href=\"https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/9629040/drake-hot-100-history-way-2-sexy-number-one\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">historic place\u003c/a> on the \u003cem>Billboard \u003c/em>charts, with nine out of the top 10 songs on the Hot 100. Drake’s “TSU”—currently charting at No. 9—incorporates material from a song released by R. Kelly in 1998 called “Half on a Baby.” The Drake song includes a sample from a track on which Houston DJ OG Ron C raps over an orchestral passage from the Kelly song.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='pop_108417']In a recent Instagram comment, longtime Drake producer and collaborator \u003ca href=\"https://variety.com/2021/music/news/drake-r-kelly-songwriting-tsu-certified-lover-boy-sample-1235057256/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Noah “40” Shebib wrote\u003c/a>: “It [the R. Kelly sample] has no significance no lyrics are present, r Kelly’s voice isn’t even present but if we wanted to use Ron c talking we were forced to license it. Doesn’t sit well with me let me just say that. And I’m not here to defend drakes lyrics, but I thought I would clear up that there is no actual r Kelly present and it’s a bit misleading to call him a co lyricist.” Still, having worked in the business as long as Drake and Shebib have, they surely must know how credits are parceled out for samples—and it’s hard to imagine Drake and his collaborators wouldn’t have foreseen any \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C1GCEJ_enUS883US883&sxsrf=AOaemvKH0VzX-5W7TyHAKr9rVyZGkMpPTw:1631042539096&q=drake+r.+kelly+tsu&tbm=nws&source=univ&tbo=u&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiDrJ_5yu3yAhWgGVkFHa1vC_wQt8YBegQIAhAG&biw=1280&bih=577\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">blowback\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s equally hard to fathom that they didn’t realize the optics of utilizing an R. Kelly-related sample in this particular moment in time—and that they didn’t recognize that scandal sells. After \u003cem>Surviving R. Kelly \u003c/em>first aired, streams of R. Kelly’s music \u003ca href=\"https://www.goodmorningamerica.com/culture/video/kellys-music-sales-reportedly-spike-docuseries-60207069\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">surged\u003c/a>, even though he had been \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/therecord/2018/06/01/616179202/spotify-to-roll-back-its-hateful-conduct-policy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">removed\u003c/a> from Spotify’s playlists the preceding year. Just as Aaliyah’s name and the story of her marriage to Kelly at age 15 was coming up in court testimony, her uncle Barry Hankerson—who had managed both her and Kelly, and who owns the rights to much of her material—began to \u003ca href=\"https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/9610793/aaliyah-music-return-streaming-services-blackground-empire/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">release\u003c/a> many of her recordings to streaming services for the first time, to the dismay of Aaliyah’s estate, including \u003ca href=\"https://variety.com/2021/music/news/aaliyah-estate-manager-battle-hankerson-1235035097/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">her mother\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>“It was dues time”\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>On Monday, a weeping “Angela” gave testimony about her own alleged abuse and that of Aaliyah. During one tour stop in 1992 or 1993 in Washington, D.C., Angela said, she and a group of other teenaged girls, including Aaliyah, were instructed by Kelly to stay at the hotel while he and his male associates hit the town. Hungry, the girls went to a nearby 7-Eleven for food. While outside, they ran into Kelly, who was enraged. The punishment for their supposed infraction, Angela said, was to “put out” and have sex with him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was dues time,” she explained. Angela said that on this occasion she refused him, and suggested to Kelly that she would call her mother and let her family know what was going on. 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"content": "\u003cp>In vivid and emotional testimony Wednesday at a Senate hearing, four elite American gymnasts testified about the abuse they had suffered by former USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar and their feelings of betrayal by investigators, including from the FBI which they say let them down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Olympic gymnast Simone Biles tearfully said she blames Nassar and also “an entire system that allowed his abuse,” including USA Gymnastics and the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13863907']“The scars of this horrific abuse continue,” Biles testified, saying that “the impact of this man’s abuse will never be over.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McKayla Maroney said Nassar “turned out to be more of a pedophile than he was a doctor.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She recalled sitting on her bedroom floor in 2015 telling the FBI on the phone “all of my molestations in extreme detail.” She said that after describing instances of abuse by Nassar, including before her winning the team gold medal at the London Olympics in 2012, “I cried, and there was just silence” on the part of the FBI agent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said the FBI then falsified her statement, said the agents involved should be indicted and criticized Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco for not appearing at the hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am tired of waiting for people to do the right thing,” Maroney said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Justice Department so far not has brought charges against either of the former FBI agents most closely involved in the case. The FBI fired Special Agent Michael Langeman in the last two weeks, FBI Director Christopher Wray later told the panel. Langeman’s supervisor, Jay Abbott, previously resigned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13903181\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13903181\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/ap21258552837799_wide-187b8bc8ae46fee4d52f003e1738f64fb625480b-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Biles testifies Wednesday during the Senate hearing. “The impact of this man’s abuse will never be over,” the Olympic gymnast said. \u003ccite>(Saul Loeb/Pool via AP)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Aly Raisman said the FBI made her feel her ‘abuse didn’t count’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Aly Raisman, also a member of the 2012 U.S. Olympic team, called for an investigation of USA Gymnastics and the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee. She said the victims of Nassar’s abuse have “been treated like adversaries.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13891766']Raisman said that all she and her fellow gymnasts are asking for “is when a child goes to gymnastics or goes to school or does anything that they can be spared abuse.” She told the panel, “We’ve been victim-shamed online over and over again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said that the FBI “made me feel my abuse didn’t count.” She recalled sitting with an FBI agent and him “trying to convince me that it wasn’t that bad.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Raisman said that it took her “years of therapy to realize my abuse was bad, that it does matter.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She later added that “all we needed was for one adult to do the right thing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The FBI director apologized that the bureau let them down\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Wray, testifying after the four gymnasts, said that the “kinds of fundamental errors that were made in this case in 2015 and 2016 should have never happened, period.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He told the gymnasts he was “deeply and profoundly sorry that so many people let you down over and over again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wray added “that on no planet is what happened in this case acceptable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Senators on the panel had few questions for the gymnasts but all expressed support and praised their courage for stepping forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., asked if they knew of other athletes abused by Nassar after the first incidents were reported to the FBI’s Indianapolis field office in July 2015. All responded that they did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, said that “the system failed you. That system needs to change. That system needs to be held accountable so that this doesn’t happen again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Durbin calls the FBI’s handling a ”stain on the bureau”\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In his opening statement, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Richard Durbin, D-Ill., called the FBI’s handling of the case “a stain on the bureau.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the 15-month period that FBI officials shirked their responsibility, Nassar abused at least 70 young athletes,” Durbin said. “For many of them, this was a continuation, but for others they were abused for the first time while the FBI sat on the case.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='pop_108600']The four who testified Wednesday, including Maggie Nichols, are among hundreds of women and girls who said Nassar sexually abused them while claiming he was treating them. Nassar is serving an \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/01/24/580304914/larry-nassar-sentenced-to-up-to-175-years-in-prison-by-michigan-judge\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">effective life sentence in prison\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The panel also heard from Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz, who in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/07/15/1016300657/watchdog-fbi-failed-to-properly-respond-to-gymnasts-sex-abuse-allegations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">recent report found\u003c/a> that the bureau failed to investigate the abuse charges against Nassar adequately.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://oig.justice.gov/reports/investigation-and-review-federal-bureau-investigations-handling-allegations-sexual-abuse\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">July report\u003c/a> by the inspector general’s office found that senior officials in the FBI Indianapolis field office failed to respond to allegations of sexual abuse of athletes by Nassar “with the urgency that the allegations required.” The IG said the Indianapolis field office also “made fundamental errors when it did respond to the allegations” by failing to notify the appropriate FBI field office in Lansing, Mich., where Nassar was employed by Michigan State University, or state or local authorities of the allegations, and “failed to take other steps to mitigate the ongoing threat posed by Nassar.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his prepared opening statement, the top Republican on the committee, Sen. 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"content": "\u003cp>Bethany C. Morrow already had several books in different genres published when she was asked to consider another: a re-envisioning of the beloved classic \u003cem>Little Women\u003c/em>. She agreed, on one condition—her book would not reimagine anything. “I know that as soon as I make the March sisters Black girls, I am not reimagining \u003cem>Little Women\u003c/em>,” she said, “I’m telling a completely different story.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13902941\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 431px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13902941\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/bethany-c.-morrow-5f7325538636c008c291e281d62e2a52fa37505c.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"431\" height=\"323\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/bethany-c.-morrow-5f7325538636c008c291e281d62e2a52fa37505c.jpg 431w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/bethany-c.-morrow-5f7325538636c008c291e281d62e2a52fa37505c-160x120.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 431px) 100vw, 431px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Author Bethany C. 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And you didn’t read it before you started writing?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I had no intention of reading it. As I told the editor, it would not matter. I am writing a story about four Black girls in 1863. It does not matter what a group of white girls was doing; that has no bearing on it. I will say that I, like a lot of people my age, was very in love with the 1994 film adaptation, so if there’s any similarity, I would expect it to be closer to a couple of elements from that film. Basically, \u003cem>Little Women\u003c/em> is considered historical fiction, but as a Black woman, I have been excluded from that narrative. It seems like the kind of property that no matter how many times it’s revisited, it’s the same. It’s for white girls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Still, some of the things in this new book, you kept the same. There are four sisters. Their mother is their moral compass, their dad is away at war. And there’s a really cute family friend, a boy named Lorie, who figures into the story. Meg is a teacher, Jo a writer, Beth a seamstress and Amy, the youngest, isn’t anything yet—but she wants to be a dancer. Where do these Marches live?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I set my \u003cem>Little Women\u003c/em> in the Roanoke Islands Freed Peoples’ Colony in 1863, so immediately you were in a completely different part of the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>So the March family was part of a community created post-emancipation, on the North Carolina shore. Was Roanoke Island the only such community?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There were several scattered throughout the country. One of the biggest, which is mentioned in the book, was \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/shil/planyourvisit/contrabandcamp.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Corinth, in Mississippi\u003c/a>. It was a bit further ahead of Roanoke in terms of age and progress. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>The evening ended with another nod to the past. The Buggles’ “Video Killed The Radio Star,” the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/world-cafe/2021/07/30/1021813462/the-first-100-videos-played-on-mtv\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">very first video to air on MTV\u003c/a> in 1981, played over the closing credits.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This story originally appeared on \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/live-updates/california-wildfire-recall-election-biden#highlights-from-the-mtv-vmas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the \u003cem>Morning Edition \u003c/em>live blog\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2021 NPR. To see more, visit \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=The+Best+Moments+From+The+MTV+VMAs&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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His absorbing new picture, \u003cem>The Card Counter\u003c/em>, is no exception: It stars \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/artists/243191159/oscar-isaac\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Oscar Isaac\u003c/a> as a professional gambler who used to be a military man stationed at \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2016/04/04/472964974/it-was-torture-an-abu-ghraib-interrogator-acknowledges-horrible-mistakes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Abu Ghraib\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13901612']We don’t know all this right at the start. Isaac’s character goes by William Tell, a silly gambler’s pseudonym. When we first meet William, he explains that he spent years in prison for some unspecified crime. It was behind bars that William learned how to count cards. Now he spends his days hopping from casino to casino, playing blackjack and poker and doing just well enough to beat the house without cleaning it out. At night he returns to his motel room, writes in his diary and tries to keep his demons at bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Early on, William meets a gambling agent named La Linda, played by a delightful \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/06/29/1011379944/tiffany-haddish-stays-busy-i-want-to-see-our-stories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tiffany Haddish\u003c/a>, who wants him to join the big leagues. Haddish and Isaac have a sly chemistry that goes from flirtatious to sizzling in no time, even though William initially rebuffs La Linda’s professional overtures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eventually Schrader brings William’s past to light, through a series of encounters that seem contrived at first but gradually bring the story’s central conflict into focus. At a casino one night, William spies Maj. 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We see prisoners being abused and interrogated in images filmed with a heavily distorting wide-angle lens—a visual abomination as well as a moral one. It’s likely no coincidence that \u003cem>The Card Counter\u003c/em> is being released so close to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/09/08/1035046778/9-11-victims-identified-using-new-technology\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">20th anniversary\u003c/a> of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Schrader can be bluntly didactic when it suits him, but here he’s sincerely inviting the audience to reflect on the legacy of Sept. 11, including the crimes that Americans have committed in the name of justice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13902724']William, who’s trying to distance himself from his past, wants no part of Cirk’s plan and tries to dissuade him from following through. He takes the kid under his wing, letting him tag along on his casino tour. He also takes La Linda up on her invitation to join her stable, hoping to make enough on the poker circuit to help Cirk out financially and get him back in school. But that’s easier said than done. As in so many of Schrader’s films, dating back even to his script for Martin Scorsese’s \u003cem>Taxi Driver\u003c/em>, a violent end seems inevitable, no matter how much our hero tries to avoid it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is a superb role for Isaac, who brings his usual sly, soulful magnetism to the role of a man who plots every move with suave precision. William is always crisply dressed in a shirt, tie and leather jacket. When he moves into a new motel room, he covers every piece of furniture with plain white sheets, as if he were trying to impose extreme order on the extreme disorder of his past. But in Isaac’s dark, haunted gaze we see a history of trauma that can’t be purged so easily. 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