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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Martha Mendoza\u003cbr>\nAssociated Press\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"single-image\">\u003ciframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/1r4bbgv1If8\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"630\" height=\"473\">\u003c/iframe>Shirley Temple, the dimpled, curly-haired child star who sang, danced, sobbed and grinned her way into the hearts of Depression-era moviegoers, has died. She was 85.\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"single-image\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"single-image\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"single-image\">Temple, known in private life as Shirley Temple Black, died Monday night at her home in the Peninsula suburb of Woodside. She was surrounded by family members and caregivers, publicist Cheryl Kagan said.\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'As long as our country has Shirley Temple, we will be all right.'\u003ccite>President Franklin D. Roosevelt\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"We salute her for a life of remarkable achievements as an actor, as a diplomat, and most importantly as our beloved mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, and adored wife for fifty-five years of the late and much missed Charles Alden Black,\" a family statement said. The family would not disclose Temple's cause of death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A talented and ultra-adorable entertainer, Shirley Temple was America's top box-office draw from 1935 to 1938, a record no other child star has come near. She beat out such grown-ups as Clark Gable, Bing Crosby, Robert Taylor, Gary Cooper and Joan Crawford.In 1999, the American Film Institute ranking of the top 50 screen legends ranked Temple at No. 18 among the 25 actresses. She appeared in scores of movies and kept children singing \"On the Good Ship Lollipop\" for generations.Temple was credited with helping save 20th Century Fox from bankruptcy with films such as \"Curly Top\" and \"The Littlest Rebel.\" She even had a drink named after her, an appropriately sweet and innocent cocktail of ginger ale and grenadine, topped with a maraschino cherry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Temple blossomed into a pretty young woman, but audiences lost interest, and she retired from films at 21. She raised a family and later became active in politics and held several diplomatic posts in Republican administrations, including ambassador to Czechoslovakia during the historic collapse of communism in 1989.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_125875\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/56701421.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-125875\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/56701421-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Actress and diplomat Shirley Temple Black with Jamie Lee Curtis at 2006 Screen Actors Guild Awards. (Kevin Winter/Getty Images)\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Actress and diplomat Shirley Temple Black with Jamie Lee Curtis at 2006 Screen Actors Guild Awards. (Kevin Winter/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"I have one piece of advice for those of you who want to receive the lifetime achievement award. Start early,\" she quipped in 2006 as she was honored by the Screen Actors Guild.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she also said that evening that her greatest roles were as wife, mother and grandmother. \"There's nothing like real love. Nothing.\" Her husband of more than 50 years, Charles Black, had died just a few months earlier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They lived for many years in Woodside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Temple's expert singing and tap dancing in the 1934 feature \"Stand Up and Cheer!\" first gained her wide notice. The number she performed with future Oscar winner James Dunn, \"Baby Take a Bow,\" became the title of one of her first starring features later that year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also in 1934, she starred in \"Little Miss Marker,\" a comedy-drama based on a story by Damon Runyon that showcased her acting talent. In \"Bright Eyes,\" Temple introduced \"On the Good Ship Lollipop\" and did battle with a charmingly bratty Jane Withers, launching Withers as a major child star, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She was \"just absolutely marvelous, greatest in the world,\" director Allan Dwan told filmmaker-author Peter Bogdanovich in his book \"Who the Devil Made It: Conversations With Legendary Film Directors.\" \"With Shirley, you'd just tell her once and she'd remember the rest of her life,\" said Dwan, who directed \"Heidi\" and \"Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm.\" \"Whatever it was she was supposed to do — she'd do it. ... And if one of the actors got stuck, she'd tell him what his line was — she knew it better than he did.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Temple's mother, Gertrude, worked to keep her daughter from being spoiled by fame and was a constant presence during filming. Her daughter said years later that her mother had been furious when a director once sent her off on an errand and then got the child to cry for a scene by frightening her. \"She never again left me alone on a set,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_125874\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/136735748.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-125874\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/136735748-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Shirley Temple in 1937 with another celebrity, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover. (AFP/Getty Images)\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shirley Temple in 1937 with another celebrity, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover. (AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Temple became a nationwide sensation. Mothers dressed their little girls like her, and a line of dolls was launched that are now highly sought-after collectibles. Her immense popularity prompted President Franklin D. Roosevelt to say that \"as long as our country has Shirley Temple, we will be all right.\"\"When the spirit of the people is lower than at any other time during this Depression, it is a splendid thing that for just 15 cents, an American can go to a movie and look at the smiling face of a baby and forget his troubles,\" Roosevelt said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She followed up in the next few years with a string of hit films, most with sentimental themes and musical subplots. She often played an orphan, as in \"Curly Top,\" where she introduced the hit \"Animal Crackers in My Soup,\" and \"Stowaway,\" in which she was befriended by Robert Young, later of \"Father Knows Best\" fame.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Historic dance roles\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She teamed with the great black dancer Bill \"Bojangles\" Robinson in two 1935 films with Civil War themes, \"The Little Colonel\" and \"The Littlest Rebel.\" Their tap dance up the steps in \"The Little Colonel\" (at a time when interracial teamings were unheard of in Hollywood) became a landmark in the history of film dance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of her pictures were remakes of silent films, such as \"Captain January,\" in which she recreated the role originally played by the silent star Baby Peggy Montgomery in 1924. \"Poor Little Rich Girl\" and \"Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm,\" done a generation earlier by Mary Pickford, were heavily rewritten for Temple, with show biz added to the plots to give her opportunities to sing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In its review of \"Rebecca,\" the show business publication Variety complained that a \"more fitting title would be \"Rebecca of Radio City.'\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She won a special Academy Award in early 1935 for her \"outstanding contribution to screen entertainment\" in the previous year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"She is a legacy of a different time in motion pictures. She caught the imagination of the entire country in a way that no one had before,\" actor Martin Landau said when the two were honored at the Academy Awards in 1998.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Temple's fans agreed. Her fans seemed interested in every last golden curl on her head: It was once guessed that she had more than 50. Her mother was said to have done her hair in pin curls for each movie, with every hairstyle having exactly 56 curls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Worldwide fascination with child star\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On her eighth birthday — she actually was turning 9, but the studio wanted her to be younger — Temple received more than 135,000 presents from around the world, according to \"The Films of Shirley Temple,\" a 1978 book by Robert Windeler. The gifts included a baby kangaroo from Australia and a prize Jersey calf from schoolchildren in Oregon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"She's indelible in the history of America because she appeared at a time of great social need, and people took her to their hearts,\" the late Roddy McDowall, a fellow child star and friend, once said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although by the early 1960s she was retired from the entertainment industry, her interest in politics soon brought her back into the spotlight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She made an unsuccessful bid as a Republican candidate for Congress in 1967. After Richard Nixon became president in 1969, he appointed her as a member of the U.S. delegation to the United Nations General Assembly. In the 1970s, she was U.S. ambassador to Ghana and later U.S. chief of protocol.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Posted to Czechoslovakia\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She then served as ambassador to Czechoslovakia during the administration of the first President George Bush. A few months after she arrived in Prague in mid-1989, communist rule was overthrown in Czechoslovakia as the Iron Curtain collapsed across Eastern Europe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My main job (initially) was human rights, trying to keep people like future President Vaclav Havel out of jail,\" she said in a 1999 Associated Press interview. Within months, she was accompanying Havel, the former dissident playwright, when he came to Washington as his country's new president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She considered her background in entertainment an asset to her political career.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Politicians are actors too, don't you think?\" she once said. \"Usually if you like people and you're outgoing, not a shy little thing, you can do pretty well in politics.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Born in Santa Monica to an accountant and his wife, Temple was little more than 3 years old when she made her film debut in 1932 in the Baby Burlesks, a series of short films in which tiny performers parodied grown-up movies, sometimes with risque results.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the shorts were \"War Babies,\" a parody of \"What Price Glory\" and \"Polly Tix in Washington,\" with Shirley in the title role.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her young life was free of the scandals that plagued so many other child stars — parental feuds, drug and alcohol addiction — but Temple at times hinted at a childhood she may have missed out on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Santa asked for her autograph\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She stopped believing in Santa Claus at age 6, she once said, when \"Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After her years at the top, maintaining that level of stardom proved difficult for her and her producers. The proposal to have her play Dorothy in \"The Wizard of Oz\" didn't pan out (20th Century Fox chief Darryl Zanuck refused to lend out his greatest asset.) And \"The Little Princess\" in 1939 and \"The Blue Bird\" in 1940 didn't draw big crowds, prompting Fox to let Temple go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among her later films were \"The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer,\" with Cary Grant, and \"That Hagen Girl,\" with Ronald Reagan. Several, including the wartime drama \"Since You Went Away,\" were produced by David O. Selznick. One, \"Fort Apache,\" was directed by John Ford, who had also directed her \"Wee Willie Winkie\" years earlier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her 1942 film, \"Miss Annie Rooney,\" included her first on-screen kiss, bestowed by another maturing child star, Dickie Moore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After her film career effectively ended, she concentrated on raising her family and turned to television to host and act in 16 specials called \"Shirley Temple's Storybook\" on ABC. In 1960, she joined NBC and aired \"The Shirley Temple Show.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her 1988 autobiography, \"Child Star,\" became a best-seller.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Temple had married Army Air Corps Pvt. John Agar, the brother of a classmate at Westlake, her exclusive L.A. girls' school, in 1945. He took up acting and the pair appeared together in two films, \"Fort Apache\" and \"Adventure in Baltimore.\" She and Agar had a daughter, Susan, in 1948, but she filed for divorce the following year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She married Black in 1950, and they had two more children, Lori and Charles. That marriage lasted until his death in 2005 at age 86.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1972, she underwent successful surgery for breast cancer. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Martha Mendoza\u003cbr>\nAssociated Press\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"single-image\">\u003ciframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/1r4bbgv1If8\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"630\" height=\"473\">\u003c/iframe>Shirley Temple, the dimpled, curly-haired child star who sang, danced, sobbed and grinned her way into the hearts of Depression-era moviegoers, has died. She was 85.\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"single-image\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"single-image\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"single-image\">Temple, known in private life as Shirley Temple Black, died Monday night at her home in the Peninsula suburb of Woodside. She was surrounded by family members and caregivers, publicist Cheryl Kagan said.\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'As long as our country has Shirley Temple, we will be all right.'\u003ccite>President Franklin D. Roosevelt\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"We salute her for a life of remarkable achievements as an actor, as a diplomat, and most importantly as our beloved mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, and adored wife for fifty-five years of the late and much missed Charles Alden Black,\" a family statement said. The family would not disclose Temple's cause of death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A talented and ultra-adorable entertainer, Shirley Temple was America's top box-office draw from 1935 to 1938, a record no other child star has come near. She beat out such grown-ups as Clark Gable, Bing Crosby, Robert Taylor, Gary Cooper and Joan Crawford.In 1999, the American Film Institute ranking of the top 50 screen legends ranked Temple at No. 18 among the 25 actresses. She appeared in scores of movies and kept children singing \"On the Good Ship Lollipop\" for generations.Temple was credited with helping save 20th Century Fox from bankruptcy with films such as \"Curly Top\" and \"The Littlest Rebel.\" She even had a drink named after her, an appropriately sweet and innocent cocktail of ginger ale and grenadine, topped with a maraschino cherry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Temple blossomed into a pretty young woman, but audiences lost interest, and she retired from films at 21. She raised a family and later became active in politics and held several diplomatic posts in Republican administrations, including ambassador to Czechoslovakia during the historic collapse of communism in 1989.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_125875\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/56701421.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-125875\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/56701421-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Actress and diplomat Shirley Temple Black with Jamie Lee Curtis at 2006 Screen Actors Guild Awards. (Kevin Winter/Getty Images)\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Actress and diplomat Shirley Temple Black with Jamie Lee Curtis at 2006 Screen Actors Guild Awards. (Kevin Winter/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"I have one piece of advice for those of you who want to receive the lifetime achievement award. Start early,\" she quipped in 2006 as she was honored by the Screen Actors Guild.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she also said that evening that her greatest roles were as wife, mother and grandmother. \"There's nothing like real love. Nothing.\" Her husband of more than 50 years, Charles Black, had died just a few months earlier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They lived for many years in Woodside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Temple's expert singing and tap dancing in the 1934 feature \"Stand Up and Cheer!\" first gained her wide notice. The number she performed with future Oscar winner James Dunn, \"Baby Take a Bow,\" became the title of one of her first starring features later that year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also in 1934, she starred in \"Little Miss Marker,\" a comedy-drama based on a story by Damon Runyon that showcased her acting talent. In \"Bright Eyes,\" Temple introduced \"On the Good Ship Lollipop\" and did battle with a charmingly bratty Jane Withers, launching Withers as a major child star, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She was \"just absolutely marvelous, greatest in the world,\" director Allan Dwan told filmmaker-author Peter Bogdanovich in his book \"Who the Devil Made It: Conversations With Legendary Film Directors.\" \"With Shirley, you'd just tell her once and she'd remember the rest of her life,\" said Dwan, who directed \"Heidi\" and \"Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm.\" \"Whatever it was she was supposed to do — she'd do it. ... And if one of the actors got stuck, she'd tell him what his line was — she knew it better than he did.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Temple's mother, Gertrude, worked to keep her daughter from being spoiled by fame and was a constant presence during filming. Her daughter said years later that her mother had been furious when a director once sent her off on an errand and then got the child to cry for a scene by frightening her. \"She never again left me alone on a set,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_125874\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/136735748.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-125874\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/136735748-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Shirley Temple in 1937 with another celebrity, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover. (AFP/Getty Images)\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shirley Temple in 1937 with another celebrity, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover. (AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Temple became a nationwide sensation. Mothers dressed their little girls like her, and a line of dolls was launched that are now highly sought-after collectibles. Her immense popularity prompted President Franklin D. Roosevelt to say that \"as long as our country has Shirley Temple, we will be all right.\"\"When the spirit of the people is lower than at any other time during this Depression, it is a splendid thing that for just 15 cents, an American can go to a movie and look at the smiling face of a baby and forget his troubles,\" Roosevelt said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She followed up in the next few years with a string of hit films, most with sentimental themes and musical subplots. She often played an orphan, as in \"Curly Top,\" where she introduced the hit \"Animal Crackers in My Soup,\" and \"Stowaway,\" in which she was befriended by Robert Young, later of \"Father Knows Best\" fame.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Historic dance roles\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She teamed with the great black dancer Bill \"Bojangles\" Robinson in two 1935 films with Civil War themes, \"The Little Colonel\" and \"The Littlest Rebel.\" Their tap dance up the steps in \"The Little Colonel\" (at a time when interracial teamings were unheard of in Hollywood) became a landmark in the history of film dance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of her pictures were remakes of silent films, such as \"Captain January,\" in which she recreated the role originally played by the silent star Baby Peggy Montgomery in 1924. \"Poor Little Rich Girl\" and \"Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm,\" done a generation earlier by Mary Pickford, were heavily rewritten for Temple, with show biz added to the plots to give her opportunities to sing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In its review of \"Rebecca,\" the show business publication Variety complained that a \"more fitting title would be \"Rebecca of Radio City.'\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She won a special Academy Award in early 1935 for her \"outstanding contribution to screen entertainment\" in the previous year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"She is a legacy of a different time in motion pictures. She caught the imagination of the entire country in a way that no one had before,\" actor Martin Landau said when the two were honored at the Academy Awards in 1998.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Temple's fans agreed. Her fans seemed interested in every last golden curl on her head: It was once guessed that she had more than 50. Her mother was said to have done her hair in pin curls for each movie, with every hairstyle having exactly 56 curls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Worldwide fascination with child star\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On her eighth birthday — she actually was turning 9, but the studio wanted her to be younger — Temple received more than 135,000 presents from around the world, according to \"The Films of Shirley Temple,\" a 1978 book by Robert Windeler. The gifts included a baby kangaroo from Australia and a prize Jersey calf from schoolchildren in Oregon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"She's indelible in the history of America because she appeared at a time of great social need, and people took her to their hearts,\" the late Roddy McDowall, a fellow child star and friend, once said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although by the early 1960s she was retired from the entertainment industry, her interest in politics soon brought her back into the spotlight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She made an unsuccessful bid as a Republican candidate for Congress in 1967. After Richard Nixon became president in 1969, he appointed her as a member of the U.S. delegation to the United Nations General Assembly. In the 1970s, she was U.S. ambassador to Ghana and later U.S. chief of protocol.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Posted to Czechoslovakia\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She then served as ambassador to Czechoslovakia during the administration of the first President George Bush. A few months after she arrived in Prague in mid-1989, communist rule was overthrown in Czechoslovakia as the Iron Curtain collapsed across Eastern Europe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My main job (initially) was human rights, trying to keep people like future President Vaclav Havel out of jail,\" she said in a 1999 Associated Press interview. Within months, she was accompanying Havel, the former dissident playwright, when he came to Washington as his country's new president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She considered her background in entertainment an asset to her political career.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Politicians are actors too, don't you think?\" she once said. \"Usually if you like people and you're outgoing, not a shy little thing, you can do pretty well in politics.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Born in Santa Monica to an accountant and his wife, Temple was little more than 3 years old when she made her film debut in 1932 in the Baby Burlesks, a series of short films in which tiny performers parodied grown-up movies, sometimes with risque results.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the shorts were \"War Babies,\" a parody of \"What Price Glory\" and \"Polly Tix in Washington,\" with Shirley in the title role.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her young life was free of the scandals that plagued so many other child stars — parental feuds, drug and alcohol addiction — but Temple at times hinted at a childhood she may have missed out on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Santa asked for her autograph\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She stopped believing in Santa Claus at age 6, she once said, when \"Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After her years at the top, maintaining that level of stardom proved difficult for her and her producers. The proposal to have her play Dorothy in \"The Wizard of Oz\" didn't pan out (20th Century Fox chief Darryl Zanuck refused to lend out his greatest asset.) And \"The Little Princess\" in 1939 and \"The Blue Bird\" in 1940 didn't draw big crowds, prompting Fox to let Temple go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among her later films were \"The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer,\" with Cary Grant, and \"That Hagen Girl,\" with Ronald Reagan. Several, including the wartime drama \"Since You Went Away,\" were produced by David O. Selznick. One, \"Fort Apache,\" was directed by John Ford, who had also directed her \"Wee Willie Winkie\" years earlier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her 1942 film, \"Miss Annie Rooney,\" included her first on-screen kiss, bestowed by another maturing child star, Dickie Moore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After her film career effectively ended, she concentrated on raising her family and turned to television to host and act in 16 specials called \"Shirley Temple's Storybook\" on ABC. In 1960, she joined NBC and aired \"The Shirley Temple Show.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her 1988 autobiography, \"Child Star,\" became a best-seller.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Temple had married Army Air Corps Pvt. John Agar, the brother of a classmate at Westlake, her exclusive L.A. girls' school, in 1945. He took up acting and the pair appeared together in two films, \"Fort Apache\" and \"Adventure in Baltimore.\" She and Agar had a daughter, Susan, in 1948, but she filed for divorce the following year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She married Black in 1950, and they had two more children, Lori and Charles. That marriage lasted until his death in 2005 at age 86.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1972, she underwent successful surgery for breast cancer. 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(Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive)\" width=\"640\" height=\"450\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fritz Haeg’s “Domestic Integrities, Part I.”(Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Andrew Gilbert, \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Berkeleyside\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the next four months the \u003ca href=\"http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive\u003c/a> is the site of a grand experiment optimistically titled “\u003ca href=\"http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/exhibition/possible\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Possible\u003c/a>.” Rather than showcasing finished objects and artifacts, the building is hosting a series of interdisciplinary encounters involving nearly 100 artists and museum-goers organized by Oakland illustrator and renegade impresario \u003ca href=\"http://www.davidwilsonandribbons.com/index.php?/cv/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">David Wilson\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Built around interactive Sunday workshops featuring a dye lab, print shop, ceramics studio and recording facility, “The Possible” sprawls through five galleries and, weather permitting, the museum’s sculpture garden, turning the institution into a beehive of activity that runs through May 25. Families are encouraged to attend the Kids Club gallery, which is designed to involve children in the creative process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In preparing for the building’s closure at the end of the year, BAM seems to be challenging conventional notions about art museums. As works are completed, they’ll end up as part of “The Possible’s” installation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is the antithesis of a typical museum, with different things happening every day, even every minute,” says BAM/PFA Director Lawrence Rinder. “It’s a wonderful challenge to this institution and how we do things on every level, even how we say what ‘The Possible’ is. It’s only been up a week now and goodness know how the next four months will unfold. We’ll learn a lot about what’s possible and what’s not possible for a museum to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This Sunday’s workshop, which runs from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., gives a good sense of what “The Possible” involves. The public can join in braiding additional rings on artist Fritz Haeg’s already expansive rug, work with clay in the ceramics studio or join a song session led by Berkeley Carnatic vocalist Gautam Tejas Ganeshan, the founder of the Sangati Center (which presents regular South Indian classical recitals at the Subterranean Art House downtown).\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">“It is the antithesis of a typical museum, with different things happening every day, even every minute.”\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“Each Sunday there’s a different combination of offerings,” says Wilson, who’s been convening interdisciplinary gatherings at outdoor locales since he settled in Oakland a decade ago. “This Sunday we’re lucky to have first in a series of song sessions, what Gautam is calling Bhajana, an informal Carnatic gathering and exchange of music. That will set a wonderful tone for the day, starting at 11 a.m. on the giant rug that Fritz has installed. It’s now 28 feet in diameter, and ever expanding, giving the gallery an intimate living room feel.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ganeshan and Wilson have worked together in numerous settings over the past few years, but never under the auspices of an institution. Their first collaboration came to an abrupt conclusion when the police arrived to break up an off-the-grid multimedia gathering in the Marin Headlands. An inauspicious start, perhaps, but Wilson’s gift for bringing together disparate creative figures has dovetailed beautifully with Ganeshan’s commitment to bringing Carnatic music to new audiences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Gautam and his group of musicians offered an incredible presence for that Headlands event,” Wilson recalls. “It was broken up by the police, but this very gentle renegade performance turned into a house concert. Having that kind of adventure right off the bat we developed a tight bond, and I’ve invited him to each project since then, and it always works out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Deepa Natarajan, the UC Botanical Garden’s public education program coordinator (and Ganeshan’s wife), is also involved in “The Possible” through her work at Fibershed, which is supplying California-grown indigo for the textile lab’s dye station. Founded by Rebecca Burgess, who’s also deeply involved in “The Possible,” Fibershed supports the development of local, sustainable textile culture. Other artists and artisans participating in the project include Jana Blankenship, Sarah Cahill, Anna Halprin, Alexander Kori Girard, Meara O’Reilly, Brion Nuda Rosch, Rowena Sartin, Amy Trachtenberg and Yoshiko Wada, with new participants added throughout the exhibition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Part of David’s art practice has been convening groups of creative people – musicians, designers, painters, dancers — at gatherings that often happen at natural sites like Angel Island or the Headlands,” says Rinder, who started talking with Wilson about curating a project at the museum about two years ago. “I’ve attended several of his events and been very inspired by his ability to get some of the most creative people around to engage in very genuine way, to coordinate very complex events in a seemingly effortless way, so that artists do their best work in a stress-free way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While it might sound like the museum staff is turning over the premises to the artists, part of “The Possible” involves selecting objects created in the workshops for display. Gallery 3 features a display case built by Kori Girard that “although empty is a beautiful thing itself,” Rinder says. “It’s not just an empty display, it’s sculptural, so there’s no before and after. We’re always in the creative space if we choose to see it that way. That blank space is itself a beautiful thing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Possible” runs until May 25, 2014, at the Berkeley Art Museum, 2575 Bancroft Way. See the planning process for the \u003ca href=\"http://thepossible-correspondence.tumblr.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">exhibit on its Tumblr page\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Andrew Gilbert covers music and dance for Berkeleyside, San Jose Mercury News, Contra Costa Times, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe and East Bay Express. 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And Monday, the group that oversees development of San Francisco’s historic former Army base, the Presidio, very politely said “no thanks” to the filmmaker’s bid to erect a new museum to house what, by all accounts, is \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/default/article/George-Lucas-proposes-Presidio-museum-4331417.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">an epic collection\u003c/a> of popular art celebrating the history of visual storytelling — including comics, children’s books, cinema, digital technology and illustrations of artists such as Norman Rockwell and Maxfield Parrish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.presidio.gov/Pages/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Presidio Trust\u003c/a> also turned down two other finalists in the marathon bidding process to build a new cultural center at mid-Crissy Field, now the site of a former Army commissary that currently houses a hip but culturally unprepossessing branch of fitness retailer Sports Basement. The two other proposals, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.presidio.gov/about/Pages/commissary-the-presidio-exchange.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Presidio Exchange \u003c/a>and the \u003ca href=\"http://www.presidio.gov/about/Pages/commissary-bridge-sustainability-institute.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bridge/Sustainability Institute\u003c/a>, focused on environment, local history and cultural education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trust’s public explanation for turning down all three proposals? As Presidio Trust officials put it \u003ca href=\"http://www.presidio.gov/about/Administrative%20Documents/PLN-305-Statement%20from%20the%20Trust%20Board%2002032014.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">in a statement\u003c/a>, “We simply do not believe any of the projects were right for this location.” The Trust suggested it wants to reserve the Sports Basement property as open space as Doyle Drive, the elevated freeway leading to the Golden Gate Bridge, gives way to the less obtrusive \u003ca href=\"http://www.presidioparkway.org/about/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Presidio Parkway\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lucas had \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/default/article/George-Lucas-proposes-Presidio-museum-4331417.php#page-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reportedly planned \u003c/a>to spend $250 million to $300 million to build his new museum and grant the institution $800 million in endowments. The Presidio Trust said it would like to continue discussions with Lucas in hopes of finding a site for the museum elsewhere in the 1,500-acre Presidio, which is part of the National Park Service’s Golden Gate National Recreation Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in a statement, Lucas seemed cool to the idea of looking for an alternative Presidio location. And \u003ca href=\"http://blog.sfgate.com/matierandross/2014/02/03/george-lucas-shot-down-at-crissy-field-but-not-out/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the San Francisco Chronicle’s Phil Matier and Andy Ross reported Monday\u003c/a> that a Lucas spokesman seemed taken aback by the Presidio Trust’s decision and offer to look for another site:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“This is something that caught us completely by surprise,” David Perry, spokesman for Lucas, said of the latest offer for another site, at an undisclosed location closer to the Main Post.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For four years, we have been told that the only site available for development is the Sports Basement site — and we have worked and reworked our plan to make it work,” Perry said. “Now, literally in the past few hours, we hear there is an alternative site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are intrigued,” Perry said, but “a lot of other people have asked us to dance, and we will start calling them back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perry apparently was referring, in particular, to an offer to Lucas to build his museum in Chicago, where the director’s new wife lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perry ruled out one site that others have suggested, at the Palace of Fine Arts, saying the Lucas team had examined the property and concluded it wouldn’t work.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Presidio development marks the second major reversal for Lucas in his attempts to get ambitious, signature projects built in the Bay Area. In April 2012, he \u003ca href=\"http://www.northbaybusinessjournal.com/52467/lucas-drops-grady-ranch-studio-project/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">withdrew a proposal\u003c/a> for a major new movie production complex on his Grady Ranch property in Marin County’s Lucas Valley. That decision came after protracted battles with neighbors who sought to block the project. Lucas said he would try to develop the site for low-income and affordable housing instead, but so far he has not found a developer to partner with on the project.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_125090\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/125651302.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-125090\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/125651302-640x473.jpg\" alt=\"Actor Philip Seymour Hoffman, who died Sunday at the age of 46, is shown at Oakland's Paramount Theatre in September 2011 for the premiere of the film "Moneyball." Hoffman portrayed former Oakland A's Manager Art Howe in the film. (Michael Buckner/Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"473\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Actor Philip Seymour Hoffman, who died Sunday at the age of 46, is shown at Oakland's Paramount Theatre in September 2011 for the premiere of the film \"Moneyball.\" Hoffman portrayed former Oakland A's Manager Art Howe in the film. (Michael Buckner/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Since I don't see nearly as many movies as a modern human being is expected to, I can't say I know the Philip Seymour Hoffman canon too well. But given what I saw him in — \"The Big Lebowski,\" \"Almost Famous,\" \"State and Main,\" \"The Talented Mr. Ripley\" and especially \"Capote\" — I think my opinion comported with what I perceive to be the general view: The guy could act. On that basis, and considering his age, 46, hearing about \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/03/movies/philip-seymour-hoffman-actor-dies-at-46.html?hp\" target=\"_blank\">his death earlier today\u003c/a> was, and is, stunning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"a53eb99b85630e70d02b2531e489dac6\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hoffman had one role in recent years with a prominent Bay Area tie, playing former Oakland A's Manager Art Howe in \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1210166/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_10\" target=\"_blank\">Moneyball\u003c/a>.\" I don't think it rated as one of Hoffman's career highlights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For as much as I like the A's and the \"Moneyball\" story — both the Michael Lewis book about the non-traditional views of A's General Manager Billy Beane and the way those views have so often come to entertaining life on the field — the Art Howe in the movie felt more than a little off. Hoffman's portrayal was competent enough. But we were seeing the depiction of someone who we, as followers of the local nine, felt we had sort of gotten to know. The guy we had watched on the dugout steps, heard on the radio and read about in the paper year after year in the late Nineties and early Oughts didn't seem like the humorless, narrow-minded, shackled-to-baseball-tradition jerk we were seeing on screen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Howe complained bitterly about the portrayal. (See \"\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2011/09/28/art-howe-rip-moneyball-and-billy-beane-listen-to-knbr-appearance/\" target=\"_blank\">Art Howe Rips 'Moneyball' and Billy Beane\u003c/a>,\" a post colleague Jon Brooks wrote soon after the movie came out in 2011.) But among those Howe didn't blame was the actor who played him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Howe is still talking about the movie — but now to express shock at Hoffman's sudden passing. \u003ca href=\"http://www.tmz.com/2014/02/02/philip-seymore-hoffman-art-howe-moneyball-forgive/#ixzz2sD1qQQF6\" target=\"_blank\">He told TMZ today\u003c/a> that he never held the portrayal against Hoffman:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Howe says he was \"in shock\" when he learned PSH had passed away Sunday ... explaining, \"We never got to meet. I remember reading an article where he said he wanted to meet me and apologize for how he portrayed me. Now we're never going to have that chance.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Howe says he was very unhappy with the way he was portrayed in the flick -- but says he points the finger at the producers and the writers ... not PSH.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Even though I didn't agree with the way I was portrayed, I didn't blame him -- he was just playing the part he was given,\" Howe says.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>KQED News colleague Nina Thorsen was one of thousands of people who volunteered to be an extra when \"Moneyball\" filmed its climactic scene — the A's winning their 20th straight game in 2002 — during a series of late-night shoots at the Coliseum in 2010.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the news about Hoffman's passing broke this morning, Nina wrote:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>I think every one of the thousands of us who were \"Moneyball\" extras got at least a smile and a wave, and some of my friends who had slightly bigger extra roles said he'd make a point of coming over to sit down and talk with them.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Here's Hoffman as Howe in \"Moneyball,\" followed by the latest version of the Associated Press obituary on Philip Seymour Hoffman:\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"single-video\">\u003ciframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/SdCNcN-NFXA\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jake Coyle and Tom Hays\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Associated Press\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NEW YORK — Philip Seymour Hoffman, who won the Oscar for best actor in 2006 for his portrayal of writer Truman Capote and created a gallery of other vivid characters, many of them slovenly and somewhat dissipated, was found dead Sunday in his apartment with what officials said was a needle in his arm. He was 46.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two law enforcement officials, who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk about the evidence, said the actor apparently died of a drug overdose. Glassine envelopes containing what was believed to be heroin were found with him, they said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hoffman — no matinee idol, with his lumpy build and limp blond hair — made his career mostly as a character actor, and was one of the most prolific in the business, plying his craft with a rumpled naturalism that also made him one of the most admired performers of his generation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The stage-trained actor was nominated for Academy Awards four times in all: for \"Capote,\" ''The Master,\" ''Doubt\" and \"Charlie Wilson's War.\" He also received three Tony nominations for his work on Broadway, which included an acclaimed turn as the weary and defeated Willy Loman in \"Death of a Salesman.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hoffman spoke candidly over the years about past struggles with drug addiction. After 23 years sober, he admitted in interviews last year to falling off the wagon and developing a heroin problem that led to a stint in rehab.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tributes poured in from other Hollywood figures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"One of the greatest actors of a generation and a sweet, funny & humble man,\" actor Ricky Gervais tweeted. Director Spike Lee said on Twitter: \"Damn, We Lost Another Great Artist.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Kevin Costner said in an AP interview: \"Philip was a very important actor and really takes his place among the real great actors. It's a shame. Who knows what he would have been able to do? But we're left with the legacy of the work he's done and it all speaks for itself.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"No words for this. He was too great and we're too shattered,\" said Mike Nichols, who directed Hoffman in \"Charlie Wilson's War\" and \"Death of a Salesman.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The law enforcement officials said Hoffman's body was discovered in a bathroom at his Greenwich Village apartment by a friend who made the 911 call and his assistant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Late Sunday, a police crime-scene van was parked out front, and technicians carrying brown paper bags went in and out. Police kept a growing crowd of onlookers back. A single red daisy had been placed in front of the lobby door.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hoffman's family called the news \"tragic and sudden.\" Hoffman is survived by his partner of 15 years, Mimi O'Donnell, and their three children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are devastated by the loss of our beloved Phil and appreciate the outpouring of love and support we have received from everyone,\" the family said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one of his earliest screen roles, he played a spoiled prep school student in \"Scent of a Woman\" in 1992. One of his breakthroughs came as a gay member of a porno film crew in \"Boogie Nights,\" one of several movies directed by Paul Thomas Anderson that he would eventually appear in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He often played comic, slightly off-kilter characters in movies like \"Along Came Polly,\" ''The Big Lebowski\" and \"Almost Famous.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More recently, he was Plutarch Heavensbee in \"The Hunger Games: Catching Fire\" and was reprising that role in the two-part sequel, \"The Hunger Games: Mockingjay,\" which is in the works. And in \"Moneyball,\" he played Art Howe, the grumpy manager of the Oakland Athletics who resisted new thinking about baseball talent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just weeks ago, Showtime announced Hoffman would star in \"Happyish,\" a new comedy series about a middle-aged man's pursuit of happiness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was nominated for the 2013 Academy Award for best supporting actor for his role in \"The Master\" as the charismatic leader of a religious movement. The film, inspired in part by the life of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard, reunited the actor with Anderson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also received a 2009 best-supporting nomination for \"Doubt,\" as a priest who comes under suspicion because of his relationship with a boy, and another best-supporting nomination as a CIA officer in \"Charlie Wilson's War.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Born in 1967 in Fairport, N.Y., Hoffman was interested in acting from an early age, mesmerized at 12 by a local production of Arthur Miller's \"All My Sons.\" He studied theater as a teenager with the New York State Summer School of the Arts and the Circle in the Square Theatre. He then majored in drama at New York University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his Oscar acceptance speech for \"Capote,\" he thanked his mother for raising him and his three siblings alone, and for taking him to his first play. Hoffman's parents divorced when he was 9.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He could seemingly take on any role, large or small, loathsome or sympathetic, and appeared to be utterly lacking in vanity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Broadway, in addition to starring as Willy Loman, he played Jamie in \"Long Day's Journey Into Night\" and both leads in \"True West.\" All three performances were Tony-nominated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His 2012 performance in \"Death of a Salesman\" was praised as \"heartbreaking\" by AP theater critic Mark Kennedy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Hoffman is only 44, but he nevertheless sags in his brokenness like a man closer to retirement age, lugging about his sample cases filled with his self-denial and disillusionment,\" Kennedy wrote. \"His fraying connection to reality is pronounced in this production, with Hoffman quick to anger and a hard edge emerging from his babbling.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two films starring Hoffman premiered last month at the Sundance Film Festival: the espionage thriller \"A Most Wanted Man\" and \"God's Pocket.\"\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Now we're never going to have that chance.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Howe says he was very unhappy with the way he was portrayed in the flick -- but says he points the finger at the producers and the writers ... not PSH.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Even though I didn't agree with the way I was portrayed, I didn't blame him -- he was just playing the part he was given,\" Howe says.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>KQED News colleague Nina Thorsen was one of thousands of people who volunteered to be an extra when \"Moneyball\" filmed its climactic scene — the A's winning their 20th straight game in 2002 — during a series of late-night shoots at the Coliseum in 2010.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the news about Hoffman's passing broke this morning, Nina wrote:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>I think every one of the thousands of us who were \"Moneyball\" extras got at least a smile and a wave, and some of my friends who had slightly bigger extra roles said he'd make a point of coming over to sit down and talk with them.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Here's Hoffman as Howe in \"Moneyball,\" followed by the latest version of the Associated Press obituary on Philip Seymour Hoffman:\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"single-video\">\u003ciframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/SdCNcN-NFXA\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jake Coyle and Tom Hays\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Associated Press\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NEW YORK — Philip Seymour Hoffman, who won the Oscar for best actor in 2006 for his portrayal of writer Truman Capote and created a gallery of other vivid characters, many of them slovenly and somewhat dissipated, was found dead Sunday in his apartment with what officials said was a needle in his arm. He was 46.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two law enforcement officials, who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk about the evidence, said the actor apparently died of a drug overdose. Glassine envelopes containing what was believed to be heroin were found with him, they said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hoffman — no matinee idol, with his lumpy build and limp blond hair — made his career mostly as a character actor, and was one of the most prolific in the business, plying his craft with a rumpled naturalism that also made him one of the most admired performers of his generation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The stage-trained actor was nominated for Academy Awards four times in all: for \"Capote,\" ''The Master,\" ''Doubt\" and \"Charlie Wilson's War.\" He also received three Tony nominations for his work on Broadway, which included an acclaimed turn as the weary and defeated Willy Loman in \"Death of a Salesman.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hoffman spoke candidly over the years about past struggles with drug addiction. After 23 years sober, he admitted in interviews last year to falling off the wagon and developing a heroin problem that led to a stint in rehab.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tributes poured in from other Hollywood figures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"One of the greatest actors of a generation and a sweet, funny & humble man,\" actor Ricky Gervais tweeted. Director Spike Lee said on Twitter: \"Damn, We Lost Another Great Artist.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Kevin Costner said in an AP interview: \"Philip was a very important actor and really takes his place among the real great actors. It's a shame. Who knows what he would have been able to do? But we're left with the legacy of the work he's done and it all speaks for itself.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"No words for this. He was too great and we're too shattered,\" said Mike Nichols, who directed Hoffman in \"Charlie Wilson's War\" and \"Death of a Salesman.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The law enforcement officials said Hoffman's body was discovered in a bathroom at his Greenwich Village apartment by a friend who made the 911 call and his assistant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Late Sunday, a police crime-scene van was parked out front, and technicians carrying brown paper bags went in and out. Police kept a growing crowd of onlookers back. A single red daisy had been placed in front of the lobby door.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hoffman's family called the news \"tragic and sudden.\" Hoffman is survived by his partner of 15 years, Mimi O'Donnell, and their three children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are devastated by the loss of our beloved Phil and appreciate the outpouring of love and support we have received from everyone,\" the family said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one of his earliest screen roles, he played a spoiled prep school student in \"Scent of a Woman\" in 1992. One of his breakthroughs came as a gay member of a porno film crew in \"Boogie Nights,\" one of several movies directed by Paul Thomas Anderson that he would eventually appear in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He often played comic, slightly off-kilter characters in movies like \"Along Came Polly,\" ''The Big Lebowski\" and \"Almost Famous.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More recently, he was Plutarch Heavensbee in \"The Hunger Games: Catching Fire\" and was reprising that role in the two-part sequel, \"The Hunger Games: Mockingjay,\" which is in the works. And in \"Moneyball,\" he played Art Howe, the grumpy manager of the Oakland Athletics who resisted new thinking about baseball talent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just weeks ago, Showtime announced Hoffman would star in \"Happyish,\" a new comedy series about a middle-aged man's pursuit of happiness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was nominated for the 2013 Academy Award for best supporting actor for his role in \"The Master\" as the charismatic leader of a religious movement. The film, inspired in part by the life of Scientology founder L. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_124973\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 771px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/01/IMG_7733.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-124973\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/01/IMG_7733-771x1028.jpg\" alt=\"These cherry blossoms on Pacific Avenue in San Francisco's Chinatown were selling fast on the eve of the Lunar New Year. (Patricia Yollin/KQED)\" width=\"771\" height=\"1028\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">These cherry blossoms on Pacific Avenue in San Francisco’s Chinatown were selling fast on the eve of the Lunar New Year. (Patricia Yollin/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>An elderly Chinese man sat on a Grant Avenue sidewalk Thursday afternoon and played “Auld Lang Syne” on his erhu, a long-stringed instrument that looked as aged as its owner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It seemed incongruous but somehow fitting: It was the eve of Lunar New Year 4712. The streets of San Francisco’s Chinatown were frantic but festive, teeming with people grabbing branches of quince or cherry blossoms, stocking up on citrus and trying to get ready.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All in preparation for the Year of the Horse, which arrived today. The 15-day New Year’s holiday, also known as the Spring Festival, will end on Valentine’s Day, although San Francisco’s annual \u003ca href=\"http://www.chineseparade.com\">Chinese New Year Parade\u003c/a> will take place on Feb. 15.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I lived in North Beach for 16 years and shopped in Chinatown markets almost every day, mostly on Stockton Street but also Washington, Jackson and Pacific. Just before the new year begins, I always walk around the neighborhood, partly because it has a special feel but also because I’m a procrastinator – so the Lunar New Year is my ultimate deadline for getting things done.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last night, my friend \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/magazine/article/Adopting-a-homemade-tamale-tradition-3212939.php\">Lily Wong Fillmore,\u003c/a> a working linguist and retired UC Berkeley education professor, cooked lo han jai, a vegetarian Buddhist dish, for New Year’s Eve.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s lots of interesting word magic in the dish,” said the San Francisco resident, whose parents were immigrants from Guangdong Province in China. “One of the ingredients, the black hairy seaweed, sounds like the word for good fortune – different tones but still a good match. My father told me long ago that the dish is made up of items gathered from the earth, air and sea. Most of them have undergone some process, such as drying, salting or transforming, as with beans into tofu and bean curd. It’s an example of humans cooperating with nature to make its gifts go further.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lo han jai is traditional on New Year’s Day itself in many Asian-American families. “My mother declared oysters to be vegetables so she could use oyster sauce in the dish,” Wong Fillmore said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the Year of the Snake slithers off, what should we expect from the Year of the Horse, or, specifically, the Wood Horse, as this year is designated? According to \u003ca href=\"http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/chinese-new-year-2014-what-the-year-of-the-horse-means-for-you-9096775.html\">a piece in The Independent today,\u003c/a> it could be “a fast year full of conflicts … when people will stick more to their principles and stand firm.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2014/jan/31/eight-things-you-probably-didnt-know-about-year-of-horse\">story in The Guardian\u003c/a> today described the equine personality: “People born in the year of the horse are said to be a bit like horses: animated, active and energetic — they love being in a crowd. They are quick to learn independence — foals can walk minutes after birth — and they have a straightforward and positive attitude towards life. They are known for their communication skills and are exceedingly witty.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The article also mentioned that those born in the Year of the Horse include former President Franklin Roosevelt, astronaut Neil Armstrong, scientist Louis Pasteur, singer Aretha Franklin and Mongol ruler Genghis Khan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The animals of the Chinese zodiac come around every 12 years and the elements that govern it — fire, earth, metal, water and wood — operate on a 60-year-cycle. These elements can be crucial in determining one’s fate.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">‘In Korea, good years for males were often not good years for females. And everyone used to love women born in the years of the rabbit, rat and sheep.’\u003ccite>Elaine Kim, UC Berkeley professor\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Elaine Kim, a professor in Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies at UC Berkeley, said, “In Korea in the old days, women born in the Year of the Fire Horse were considered undesirable for marriage — wild, don’t stay at home by the hearth, fall in and out of love easily and thus have many men around, even cause their husbands’ deaths.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a result, she said, some parents lied about their daughters’ birth year, counting backward to the snake or forward to the sheep. When Kim lived in South Korea in 1966, she noticed there were few marriages until summer, ensuring that women would not give birth to a girl in the Year of the Fire Horse. Coincidence? Perhaps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In Korea, good years for males were often not good years for females,” Kim said. “And everyone used to love women born in the years of the rabbit, rat and sheep.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For a less anecdotal take on the zodiac, Kim referred me to San Francisco astrologer and feng shui practitioner Edgar Sung. His forecast for the year, tailored to each zodiac sign, was detailed and not always encouraging: Rats will have a tough time. Tigers might experience the death of a loved one, and Pigs might have to deal with lots of family confrontations. But Ox people will prosper.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unfortunately, even though it’s their year, horse people will face a “rocky road” in 2014, Sung wrote. They’ll have plenty of money and promotions, but those in business should watch their budgets because someone might steal from them. It’s not a good year to pass an exam, and an unexpected disaster might happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If there is any fight there will be bloodshed,” Sung said. “… To improve his luck, the Horse should do many good deeds.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_125026\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-125026\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/01/RS8464_IMG_7720-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"Grant Avenue, the main commercial strip of San Francisco's Chinatown, is decked out for the Lunar New Year. (Patricia Yollin/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Grant Avenue, the main commercial strip of San Francisco’s Chinatown, is decked out for the Lunar New Year. (Patricia Yollin/KQED) \u003ccite>(Patricia Yollin/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_125027\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-125027\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/01/RS8465_IMG_7775-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"With the Year of the Horse about to gallop in, there was a strong equine presence in San Francisco's Chinatown. (Patricia Yollin/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">With the Year of the Horse about to gallop in, there was a strong equine presence in San Francisco’s Chinatown. (Patricia Yollin/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_125034\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-125034\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/01/RS8471_IMG_7768-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"Buddha's hand and other citrus fruits could be found all over San Francisco's Chinatown on Jan. 30, the eve of the Lunar New Year. (Patricia Yollin/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Buddha’s hand and other citrus fruits could be found all over San Francisco’s Chinatown on Jan. 30, the eve of the Lunar New Year. (Patricia Yollin/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_125033\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-125033\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/01/RS8470_IMG_7714-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"The window of the Eastern Bakery on Grant Avenue in San Francisco's Chinatown featured a Chinese New Year cake. (Patricia Yollin/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The window of the Eastern Bakery on Grant Avenue in San Francisco’s Chinatown featured a Chinese New Year cake. (Patricia Yollin/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_125032\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-125032\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/01/RS8469_IMG_7751-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"Merchants on Stockton Street in San Francisco's Chinatown are allowed to set up displays in curbside parking spaces during the new year's celebration. (Patricia Yollin/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Merchants on Stockton Street in San Francisco’s Chinatown are allowed to set up displays in curbside parking spaces during the new year’s celebration. (Patricia Yollin/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_125031\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-125031\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/01/RS8468_IMG_7757-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"The color red, which symbolizes good fortune and happiness, is ubiquitous during the 15-day Lunar New Year celebration. (Patricia Yollin/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The color red, which symbolizes good fortune and happiness, is ubiquitous during the 15-day Lunar New Year celebration. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s lots of interesting word magic in the dish,” said the San Francisco resident, whose parents were immigrants from Guangdong Province in China. “One of the ingredients, the black hairy seaweed, sounds like the word for good fortune – different tones but still a good match. My father told me long ago that the dish is made up of items gathered from the earth, air and sea. Most of them have undergone some process, such as drying, salting or transforming, as with beans into tofu and bean curd. It’s an example of humans cooperating with nature to make its gifts go further.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lo han jai is traditional on New Year’s Day itself in many Asian-American families. “My mother declared oysters to be vegetables so she could use oyster sauce in the dish,” Wong Fillmore said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the Year of the Snake slithers off, what should we expect from the Year of the Horse, or, specifically, the Wood Horse, as this year is designated? According to \u003ca href=\"http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/chinese-new-year-2014-what-the-year-of-the-horse-means-for-you-9096775.html\">a piece in The Independent today,\u003c/a> it could be “a fast year full of conflicts … when people will stick more to their principles and stand firm.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2014/jan/31/eight-things-you-probably-didnt-know-about-year-of-horse\">story in The Guardian\u003c/a> today described the equine personality: “People born in the year of the horse are said to be a bit like horses: animated, active and energetic — they love being in a crowd. They are quick to learn independence — foals can walk minutes after birth — and they have a straightforward and positive attitude towards life. They are known for their communication skills and are exceedingly witty.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The article also mentioned that those born in the Year of the Horse include former President Franklin Roosevelt, astronaut Neil Armstrong, scientist Louis Pasteur, singer Aretha Franklin and Mongol ruler Genghis Khan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The animals of the Chinese zodiac come around every 12 years and the elements that govern it — fire, earth, metal, water and wood — operate on a 60-year-cycle. These elements can be crucial in determining one’s fate.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">‘In Korea, good years for males were often not good years for females. And everyone used to love women born in the years of the rabbit, rat and sheep.’\u003ccite>Elaine Kim, UC Berkeley professor\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Elaine Kim, a professor in Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies at UC Berkeley, said, “In Korea in the old days, women born in the Year of the Fire Horse were considered undesirable for marriage — wild, don’t stay at home by the hearth, fall in and out of love easily and thus have many men around, even cause their husbands’ deaths.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a result, she said, some parents lied about their daughters’ birth year, counting backward to the snake or forward to the sheep. When Kim lived in South Korea in 1966, she noticed there were few marriages until summer, ensuring that women would not give birth to a girl in the Year of the Fire Horse. Coincidence? Perhaps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In Korea, good years for males were often not good years for females,” Kim said. “And everyone used to love women born in the years of the rabbit, rat and sheep.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For a less anecdotal take on the zodiac, Kim referred me to San Francisco astrologer and feng shui practitioner Edgar Sung. His forecast for the year, tailored to each zodiac sign, was detailed and not always encouraging: Rats will have a tough time. Tigers might experience the death of a loved one, and Pigs might have to deal with lots of family confrontations. But Ox people will prosper.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unfortunately, even though it’s their year, horse people will face a “rocky road” in 2014, Sung wrote. They’ll have plenty of money and promotions, but those in business should watch their budgets because someone might steal from them. It’s not a good year to pass an exam, and an unexpected disaster might happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If there is any fight there will be bloodshed,” Sung said. “… To improve his luck, the Horse should do many good deeds.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_125026\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-125026\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/01/RS8464_IMG_7720-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"Grant Avenue, the main commercial strip of San Francisco's Chinatown, is decked out for the Lunar New Year. (Patricia Yollin/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Grant Avenue, the main commercial strip of San Francisco’s Chinatown, is decked out for the Lunar New Year. 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(Patricia Yollin/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_125034\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-125034\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/01/RS8471_IMG_7768-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"Buddha's hand and other citrus fruits could be found all over San Francisco's Chinatown on Jan. 30, the eve of the Lunar New Year. (Patricia Yollin/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Buddha’s hand and other citrus fruits could be found all over San Francisco’s Chinatown on Jan. 30, the eve of the Lunar New Year. (Patricia Yollin/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_125033\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-125033\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/01/RS8470_IMG_7714-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"The window of the Eastern Bakery on Grant Avenue in San Francisco's Chinatown featured a Chinese New Year cake. (Patricia Yollin/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The window of the Eastern Bakery on Grant Avenue in San Francisco’s Chinatown featured a Chinese New Year cake. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_124682\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/01/TURNER-2-obit-superJumbo-e1391020178646.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-124682\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/01/TURNER-2-obit-superJumbo-640x203.jpg\" alt='\"Wee Pals\" was written and drawn by Oakland native Morrie Turner, who died at age 90 last weekend. (Morrie Turner via Cartoon Art Museum, San Francisco)' width=\"640\" height=\"203\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">\"Wee Pals\" was written and drawn by Oakland native Morrie Turner, who died at age 90 last weekend. (Morrie Turner via Cartoon Art Museum, San Francisco)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One of my many cultural blind spots: the funny papers. Once upon a time I read them as avidly as anyone. Then probably somewhere in the Reagan years, or Bush or Clinton or Bush II years, I lost the thread and my reading narrowed from a wide range of childhood and teenage favorites, like \"Dick Tracy\" and \"Peanuts\" and \"Pogo\" and \"Mark Trail\" and \"The Family Circus\" (comics don't need to be good to be classic; some you read because they're consistently lame) to \"Calvin and Hobbes,\" \"Life in Hell\" and maybe some \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2013/05/29/187079888/looking-ahead-to-the-future-of-cartoons-and-creativity\" target=\"_blank\">Lynda Barry \u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://rozchast.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Roz Chast \u003c/a>stuff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, my habit is down to the occasional glance at \"Doonesbury\" and comics substitutes like \"The Colbert Report,\" which is essentially the comics taken to manic, steroid-infused, 3-D (or at least 2-D) heights and performed live (or nearly live) on a screen near you every evening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Long ago, I guess, I had encountered \"Wee Pals,\" a strip that focused in a direct, honest but non-confrontational way on racial issues. I wasn't a fan of the strip — again, a comment on me and my tastes, not the quality of \"Wee Pals\" — and I never delved into what was behind it. And one of the things I missed was an interesting piece of local history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The creator of the strip, which began to get a national following in the late 1960s, was Oakland artist Morrie Turner, who died over the weekend in Sacramento at the age of 90. The San Francisco Chronicle's Peter Hartlaub wrote a nice remembrance of Turner on Sunday — \u003ca href=\"http://blog.sfgate.com/thebigevent/2014/01/27/rip-morrie-turner-comic-strip-artist-mentor-and-pride-of-oakland/\" target=\"_blank\">RIP Morrie Turner: Comic strip artist, mentor and pride of Oakland\u003c/a>. Hartlaub (who also wrote \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/default/article/Morrie-Turner-pioneering-Wee-Pals-cartoonist-5183290.php\" target=\"_blank\">a full obituary on Turner\u003c/a>) said in part:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>We had been hearing for more than a year that Turner’s health was failing, but it seemed hard to believe. The Berkeley High graduate and longtime Oakland resident continued to draw his strip, even as local institutions including the San Francisco Library, Cartoon Art Museum and Children Fairyland honored his career in recent years. When Turner was with a crowd, he was more enthusiastic than most public figures half his age.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nationally, Turner will likely be remembered as the first African-American cartoonist to draw a nationally syndicated strip, bringing humorous and honest racial dialogue into newspapers. (His “Soul Corner” on the right side of the strip often celebrated black heroes.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Locally, I think artists and fans viewed him as more than that. After Charles Schulz died in 2000, Turner embraced his role as an elder statesman of Bay Area comic strip artists. He was a generous and gracious presence at WonderCon and other events, and younger talents were eager to absorb his wisdom. His work also generated pride in Oakland, where Turner’s strip reflected the city in a nuanced way that residents could understand.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/29/arts/morrie-turner-dies-at-90-broke-barriers-in-comics.html\" target=\"_blank\">A New York Times obituary\u003c/a> relates how \"Wee Pals\" evolved:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Mr. Turner’s comic strip “Wee Pals,” featuring childhood playmates who were white, black, Asian, Hispanic and Jewish (joined in later years by a girl in a wheelchair and a deaf girl), was considered subversive in 1965, when a major syndicate first offered it to newspapers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Only two or three of the hundreds of newspapers in the syndicate picked it up. By early 1968, there were five. But of the many changes that occurred after the assassination of the Rev. 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Then probably somewhere in the Reagan years, or Bush or Clinton or Bush II years, I lost the thread and my reading narrowed from a wide range of childhood and teenage favorites, like \"Dick Tracy\" and \"Peanuts\" and \"Pogo\" and \"Mark Trail\" and \"The Family Circus\" (comics don't need to be good to be classic; some you read because they're consistently lame) to \"Calvin and Hobbes,\" \"Life in Hell\" and maybe some \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2013/05/29/187079888/looking-ahead-to-the-future-of-cartoons-and-creativity\" target=\"_blank\">Lynda Barry \u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://rozchast.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Roz Chast \u003c/a>stuff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, my habit is down to the occasional glance at \"Doonesbury\" and comics substitutes like \"The Colbert Report,\" which is essentially the comics taken to manic, steroid-infused, 3-D (or at least 2-D) heights and performed live (or nearly live) on a screen near you every evening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Long ago, I guess, I had encountered \"Wee Pals,\" a strip that focused in a direct, honest but non-confrontational way on racial issues. I wasn't a fan of the strip — again, a comment on me and my tastes, not the quality of \"Wee Pals\" — and I never delved into what was behind it. And one of the things I missed was an interesting piece of local history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The creator of the strip, which began to get a national following in the late 1960s, was Oakland artist Morrie Turner, who died over the weekend in Sacramento at the age of 90. The San Francisco Chronicle's Peter Hartlaub wrote a nice remembrance of Turner on Sunday — \u003ca href=\"http://blog.sfgate.com/thebigevent/2014/01/27/rip-morrie-turner-comic-strip-artist-mentor-and-pride-of-oakland/\" target=\"_blank\">RIP Morrie Turner: Comic strip artist, mentor and pride of Oakland\u003c/a>. Hartlaub (who also wrote \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/default/article/Morrie-Turner-pioneering-Wee-Pals-cartoonist-5183290.php\" target=\"_blank\">a full obituary on Turner\u003c/a>) said in part:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>We had been hearing for more than a year that Turner’s health was failing, but it seemed hard to believe. The Berkeley High graduate and longtime Oakland resident continued to draw his strip, even as local institutions including the San Francisco Library, Cartoon Art Museum and Children Fairyland honored his career in recent years. When Turner was with a crowd, he was more enthusiastic than most public figures half his age.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nationally, Turner will likely be remembered as the first African-American cartoonist to draw a nationally syndicated strip, bringing humorous and honest racial dialogue into newspapers. (His “Soul Corner” on the right side of the strip often celebrated black heroes.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Locally, I think artists and fans viewed him as more than that. After Charles Schulz died in 2000, Turner embraced his role as an elder statesman of Bay Area comic strip artists. He was a generous and gracious presence at WonderCon and other events, and younger talents were eager to absorb his wisdom. His work also generated pride in Oakland, where Turner’s strip reflected the city in a nuanced way that residents could understand.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/29/arts/morrie-turner-dies-at-90-broke-barriers-in-comics.html\" target=\"_blank\">A New York Times obituary\u003c/a> relates how \"Wee Pals\" evolved:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Mr. Turner’s comic strip “Wee Pals,” featuring childhood playmates who were white, black, Asian, Hispanic and Jewish (joined in later years by a girl in a wheelchair and a deaf girl), was considered subversive in 1965, when a major syndicate first offered it to newspapers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Only two or three of the hundreds of newspapers in the syndicate picked it up. By early 1968, there were five. But of the many changes that occurred after the assassination of the Rev. 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The two became traveling and singing companions, campaigning for farmworker justice two decades before the movement rose to national prominence, says United Farm Workers spokesman Marc Grossman. \u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'I think he believed that music could cut through all of those things that make us afraid of one another.'\u003ccite>— Holly Near\u003cbr>\non folksinger Pete Seeger\u003c/cite> \u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Grossman was the personal aide and press secretary to \u003ca href=\"http://www.ufw.org/_page.php?menu=research&inc=history/07.html\" target=\"_blank\">Cesar Chavez\u003c/a> for more than two decades. He says Chavez met Guthrie at about the same time Seeger did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Cesar was just a kid then, maybe 13 or 14 years old,” Grossman says, “when Guthrie, this legendary folksinger and songwriter, would visit and sing songs and support strikes in the farm labor camps in the lower Central Valley, where Cesar and his family sometimes lived when they were migrant farmworkers during the Depression.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the 1960s, Seeger and Guthrie, along with artists like \u003ca href=\"http://www.joanbaez.com/officialbio08.html\" target=\"_blank\">Joan Baez \u003c/a>and \u003ca href=\"http://www.peterpaulandmary.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Peter, Paul, and Mary\u003c/a>, helped elevate the \u003ca href=\"http://www.ufw.org/\" target=\"_blank\">United Farm Workers\u003c/a> movement to national consciousness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_124672\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/01/90330705.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-124672\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/01/90330705-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Pete Seeger at a 2009 performance in New York City. (Astrid Stawiarz/Getty Images)\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pete Seeger at a 2009 performance in New York City. (Astrid Stawiarz/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Seeger would plug the union's grape boycotts wherever he could, Grossman says, and would sometimes attend UFW events in the Midwest and East Coast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’d sing ‘Nosotros Venceremos,’ the Spanish version of ‘We Shall Overcome,’ that Cesar and the UFW adopted in the 1960s,” Grossman says. “We felt blessed that among the many righteous causes that Pete Seeger championed over the decades was La Causa, the farmworkers’ cause.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“\u003ca href=\"http://www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/episodes/pete-seegers-90th-birthday-celebration-from-madison-square-garden/we-shall-overcome/820/\" target=\"_blank\">We Shall Overcome\u003c/a>” is one of Seeger’s most famous tunes, adapted from an old gospel song. Here is the story of how the song became a protest anthem, as related by The New York Times:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Like many of Mr. Seeger’s songs, “We Shall Overcome” had convoluted traditional roots. It was based on old gospel songs, primarily “I’ll Overcome,” a hymn that striking tobacco workers had sung on a picket line in South Carolina. A slower version, “We Will Overcome,” was collected from one of the workers, Lucille Simmons, by Zilphia Horton, the musical director of the Highlander Folk School in Monteagle, Tenn., which trained union organizers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ms. Horton taught it to Mr. Seeger, and her version of “We Will Overcome” was published in the People’s Songs newsletter. Mr. Seeger changed “We will” to “We shall” and added verses (“We’ll walk hand in hand”). He taught it to the singers Frank Hamilton, who would join the Weavers in 1962, and Guy Carawan, who became musical director at Highlander in the ‘50s. Mr. Carawan taught the song to the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee at its founding convention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The song was copyrighted by Mr. Seeger, Mr. Hamilton, Mr. Carawan and Ms. Horton. “At that time we didn’t know Lucille Simmons’s name,” Mr. Seeger wrote in his 1993 autobiography, “Where Have All the Flowers Gone.” All of the song’s royalties go to the “We Shall Overcome” Fund, administered by what is now the \u003ca href=\"http://highlandercenter.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Highlander Research and Education Center\u003c/a>, which provides grants to African-Americans organizing in the South.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Seeger inspired generations of folk musicians and activists, with his commitment to peace, community, and the labor movement. And it was at a concert in San Francisco where 10-year-old aspiring folk singer Holly Near first heard Seeger, along with Ronnie Gilbert, Lee Hays and Fred Hellerman, in the pioneering folk group \u003ca href=\"http://www.pbs.org/americanrootsmusic/pbs_arm_saa_weavers.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Weavers\u003c/a>. Near says folk music was popular in her childhood home. Her father built a specially sized mailbox to receive LPs, and her mother would go through catalogs and order albums by \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/03/arts/music/03odetta.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">Odetta\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/episodes/paul-robeson/about-the-actor/66/\" target=\"_blank\">Paul Robeson\u003c/a> and The Weavers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My siblings and I would all sing all the parts. We knew the words to every single song and we would dance around and sing,\" Near says, then breaks into the opening line from The Weavers' \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.peterpaulandmary.com/music/05-07.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Wasn't That a Time\u003c/a>\": “Our fathers bled at Valley Forge. ... ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Now I'm sure as an 8-year-old I had no idea what that meant,” she says, laughing, “but it was so exciting, those voices.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Near says she had no idea back then that she would sing with Seeger on and off through much of her life. She says Seeger often invited younger musicians like her to join him, and there's likely hardly a folk musician in California who hasn't shared the stage with him at some point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was eager to join in the antiwar and civil rights causes of the 1960s, she says, and would sing for causes across political boundaries, like a fundraiser he did for children in Lebanon at a time when the Arab community couldn’t find artists who would support their work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He felt that everyone should be given a chance to respond to a song,” Near says. “Even on his banjo it says, ‘This machine surrounds hate and forces it to surrender.’ I think he believed that music could cut through all of those things that make us afraid of one another.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the McCarthy era, Seeger and other members of the Weavers were accused of belonging to the Communist Party — true in Seeger's case, though he had quit by the time the charge was made — and they would sometimes arrive for concerts to find they were barred from playing. One such episode occurred in Ohio, when a 1951 Weavers appearance at the state fair was canceled. Near says that decades later, when she was touring with Seeger, Ronnie Gilbert and Arlo Guthrie, “the governor of Ohio — must have been 50 years later — invited Pete and Ronnie to come forward, and he did a public apology to them for Ohio’s historic error. It was very, very beautiful to see.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Near says now is a time to play Pete Seeger's music, sing, dance and feel the joy of having shared the planet with him for so many years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s been an honor and a pleasure to be with such an extraordinary musician and thinker and lover of the world,” she says, and then starts laughing. “I was laughing, thinking that there’s such an unusual footprint that he’s left that archaeologists are going to see it and wonder, 'What creature is this? And we’re his descendants.' ”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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We knew the words to every single song and we would dance around and sing,\" Near says, then breaks into the opening line from The Weavers' \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.peterpaulandmary.com/music/05-07.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Wasn't That a Time\u003c/a>\": “Our fathers bled at Valley Forge. ... ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Now I'm sure as an 8-year-old I had no idea what that meant,” she says, laughing, “but it was so exciting, those voices.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Near says she had no idea back then that she would sing with Seeger on and off through much of her life. 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One such episode occurred in Ohio, when a 1951 Weavers appearance at the state fair was canceled. Near says that decades later, when she was touring with Seeger, Ronnie Gilbert and Arlo Guthrie, “the governor of Ohio — must have been 50 years later — invited Pete and Ronnie to come forward, and he did a public apology to them for Ohio’s historic error. It was very, very beautiful to see.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Near says now is a time to play Pete Seeger's music, sing, dance and feel the joy of having shared the planet with him for so many years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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