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Trento: "Ann Coulter Banned from CPAC!"
Hey Conservatives...we have a problem. How does the most popular speaker at the annual, preeminent Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) get banned from formally speaking at this...
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Sanford Jay Frank, the Emmy Award-winning writer and producer, screenwriting guru and conservative ideologue whom everyone called Sandy, died at his home in Calabasas on April 18 of complications arising out of a glioblastoma, a cancerous brain tumor. He was 59.
Frank grew up in Springfield, Mass., where his father worked at the post office. He attended Harvard, where he found an outlet for his humor when he joined the Harvard Lampoon, also creating lifelong friendships with Jim Downey (Saturday Night Live) and Lawrence ODonnell (The Last Word With Lawrence ODonnell). Frank graduated from Harvard Law School and became an associate at the prestigious law firm Donovan Leisure. However, as Frank told the Chicago Tribune in a 1985 article, There wasnt room for humor in a law firm. So he took what would turn out to be a better-paying job, writing for Late Night with David Letterman. The hardest part of the job, Frank said, was learning to stop dressing up for work.
At Letterman, Frank created the legendary 1984 Velcro suit stunt, in which the late-night host donned a suit made of Velcro, jumped on a mini trampoline and adhered to a wall. It became one of the defining icons of Lettermans show and his humor. Frank won four Emmy awards for his writing.
Frank was also on the writing team of the culture-defining sketch comedy show In Living Color, which brought prominence to the Wayans family, as well as to actors Jim Carrey, Jamie Foxx and Alexandra Wentworth, and to Jennifer Lopez and Rosie Perez as dancers and choreographers. Franks recurring sketch Men on Film has often been cited as one of the shows most memorable highlights and was a frequent contender for feature film development.
After In Living Color, Frank worked on a number of African-American-led sitcoms, including Martin and The Jamie Foxx Show. What Frank loved about working on those shows, he often said, was that there always came a moment when the performers and writing staff would forget he was a white Jewish kid, drop all their inhibitions and enter a zone where anyone could say what they really felt about the issues of the day which at the time included the O.J. Simpson trial.
At Harvard, Frank was part of the Reagan-era embrace by young intellectuals of conservative thought that led to the birth of the neoconservative movement led by such Jewish Republicans as Franks Harvard classmates Eric Breindel and William Kristol, among others. Frank liked nothing more than to take a liberal point of view to its most absurd endpoint in order to deflate it.
The opportunity for Frank to do so in writing first came during Lawrence ODonnells short-lived one-hour drama about a freshman senator, Mister Sterling; then for a half-hour program that mocked the liberal news media and establishment, The 1/2 Hour News Hour, which was conceived by Joel Surnow (24) as a conservative answer to The Daily Show. It was put on the air by Roger Ailes of Fox News, with Frank as head writer and Dennis Miller, Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter as commentators. Although the show never found its footing and was canceled after 15 episodes, Frank earned the respect and friendship of such conservative luminaries as Coulter and Limbaugh as well as Andrew Breitbart.
Following the shows cancellation, Frank worked on a variety of entrepreneurial and creative projects including founding an SAT and test prep school, and writing what some call the Gemara of screenwriting, The Inner Game of Screenwriting (Michael Wiese, 2011). He was also working on a screenplay, which remained unfinished at the time of his death.
Frank battled brain cancer for two years, during which, despite challenging moments, he was able to spend memorably good times with his wife, Pam, and daughters Priscilla (a UC Berkeley graduate who is now the arts and culture editor of the Huffington Post), Harley (about to graduate from Berkeley) and Michaela (a freshman at Tulane University). He is also survived by his brother, Eric Frank. He will be missed by all who enjoyed his comedy, and mourned by all who knew him. May his memory be a blessing.
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Southwestern Community College Learning Resource Center participated in the DASH for the Stash, a new contest held during Money Smart Week (MSW) Iowa, April 5-12. The statewide winner will be awarded $1,000 to open or add to a retirement investment account, thanks to the MSW partner, the Investor Protection Trust.
The DASH for the Stash was played at nearly 100 libraries and other locations across the state. The contest is played much like a scavenger hunt. But instead of collecting objects, players collect information and leave answers to quiz questions.
Our goal is to impart some financial knowledge in a fun way on how to save, invest and protect your nest egg. Everyone will learn something, SWCC Learning Resource Center Director Ann Coulter said.
To play, participants went to the library to find four posters. They read each poster, accessed the quiz question and choose an answer. The posters covered topics of importance to savers and investors such as understanding investment fees, finding financial advisers, avoiding fraud and learning about investment products.
Getting people to focus on investing for retirement is not a game, but DASH for the Stash is a great way to engage participants who might not otherwise pay attention to this crucial part of their overall financial picture, said Don Blandin, president and CEO of the Investor Protection Trust. We are partnering with Iowa libraries for the DASH for the Stash contest because they are open to finding innovative ways to meet our mission: providing consumers the knowledge they need to become informed investors and help them avoid pitfalls.
DASH for the Stash shows that Iowa libraries are open to finding new ways to connect with the public, Craig Goettsch, education director for the Iowa Insurance Division, said. Here, they are working with Money Smart Week Iowa partners to make the library a place to learn about investing, which is not difficult but can involve complex products. The key is to understand the investment and the associated risk and reward before you invest, not after you part with your money.
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