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LIFE&STYLE
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Sunday, January 4,2009
THE BAYTOWN SUN
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Soap update:
Helen Trent
never married
AP photo/
Kin Cheung
After the most volatile financial
year in decades, people paused for
PARIS — Revelers around the
world greeted 2009 with fireworks,
tance and speed to create the
effect.
BY JOELLE DIDERICH
Associated Press Writer
Ringing in the new year
World celebrates end of 2008, dawning of 2009
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Thailand said at least 59 New hand. "I hope that 2009, which is
- * bringing your President Obama to
the scene, will help us all have a
better-ttfe.’**".....
In New York, throngs of revelers
2009, showering its shimmering
harbor with a kaleidoscope of light
that drew cheers from more than a
million people.
In Ireland,
s ■
A
service Wednesday evening, the
pope said these times are "marked
by uncertainty and worry for the going to turn around. You just have
sion that fires the imagination."
To create his moving pictures,
Seder uses a layer of multiple
images printed on a sheet of
paper under a layer of vertical
lines akin to a picket fence on
clear acetate. When the page is
turned, the reader's brain
unscrambles the images under-
neath and prompts the eyes to
see motion.
No electricity, motors or spe-
ici
at "Gallop!" "Where are they
going?" she wanted to know
before dropping to the floor and
paddling like a turtle.
Seder calls his patented
Scanimation a lesson in "retro-
tech," traceable to the mechan-
ics of the slotted, spinning
Zoetrope invented around 1850.
The difference between Seder's
method and other forms of ani-
mation and motion picture tech-
nology is he compacts all phas-
es of an image sequence onto a
F .
of Paris were scaling back purchas-
es for the traditional New Year's
Eve feast.
The new j
tragedy, as rescue workers in
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Year's revelers died in a fire that
swept through a popular nightclub
in Bangkok,- wrth about tinortxsr
130 injured.
In the splendor of St Peters with fur hats and sleeping bags had
Basilica, Pope Benedict XVI called already gathered by early evening
for "soberness and solidarity" in ,n yjmes Square, despite tempera-
2009. During a year's end vespers tUres that were expected to dip well
below freezing.
"The economy is what it is. It's
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future" but urged people not to be t0 be positive," said Sam Tenorio,
who brought his family to
America's most famous New Year's
a deep breath and a sip of... per- jn Afghanistan gathered in Kabul
haps something cheaper than t0 cut caEe and count down to the
new year.
In Brazil, six luxury cruise liners
floated off Rio's famed
Copacabana beach as fireworks
Moving books double-dare kids to splash and twirl
BY LEANNE ITALIE
Associated Press Writer
Slide, glide, twirl! Splish,
splash, floop!
Rare is the children's book
that begs to be read and tossed
aside for a good romp — all at
the same time. Rarer still are
moving pictures built right in
that double-dare kids to do just
that.
Meet Rufus Butler Seder —:
equal parts artist, mad scientist
and boy magician who never
nexion soap that movie grew up
said they used. Hostedby, From a studio in Waltham,
| Mass., Seder created two hugely
popular picture books with
unique black-and-white images
While writing recently about
the history of radio stations, I
kept thinking about how much
we relied on radio for entertain-
ment in the era predating TV
Nowadays, I rarely turn on the
radio except in the car and only
then if I don’t have a music tape
to play.
Back in the day, we didn’t
have TV, CDs, VCRs, DVDs...
We had KPRC, KTRH ...
Soap operas saturated the day-
time schedules of major net-
works, attracting a loyal audi-
ence of stay-at-home moms,
along with kids when they
weren’t in school.
Among the most well known
soaps was “Stella Dallas,” fea-
turing a hard-working, long-suf-
fering mom who sacrificed all
for her daughter, “Lolly baby.”
If I recall correctly, the spon-
sor for this show was Milk of
Magnesia, chosen perhaps
because Stella made listeners
sick to their stomachs every time
she whined, “Lolly Baby.”
Another soap opera, somewhat
easier on the stomach, was
“Helen Trent,” based largely on
the belief that a woman could
find romance after 35. Forever
looking for love in the wrong
places, Helen never did get mar-
ried and, given the number of
years she emoted o’er the air-
waves, she must have been look-
ing for romance after 95.
The heroine of “Our Gal
Sunday” was luckier in love,
having married a rich British
nobleman. They had problems,
too, but you expect problems on
soap operas.
On a lighter note, the likable
“Lorenzo Jones” occupied a time
slot on daytime radio. The main
thing I remember about Lorenzo
was the introductory theme
music, that Italian toe-tapper,
“Funiculi, Funicula.”
Growing up, I spent many an
hour during summer months
glued to the soaps but be
assured, the time was not wast-
ed. Listening to daytime radio
was something we girls did
while doing something else, like
folding laundry, polishing furni-
ture or ironing.
For me, the ironing board and
radio proved the best combo
because all I had to do was just
stand there in one spot, station-
ary, with nothing else to do but
iron and listen. Years later, this
never worked out as well with
TV With a hot iron in hand, one
must watch what one is doing.
Every night after supper, our
family would relax in the living
room by the Philco, saving the
best for last on prime time. Even
with the more relaxing mood
during evening hours, we always
seemed to have something else
to do while listening to the
radio.
Mother usually mended, quilt-
ed or did embroidery.
Not adept at threading a nee-
dle, I was more hands-on with
paper and pencil, drawing pic-
tures, compulsively, obsessively.
I was downright “sketch-o-
phrenic.”
Early on, though, I learned not
to carry this habit into the class-
room. Once, when I was drawing
pictures - as was my radio-
induced custom - a ruler came
pounding down on my right
hand. Ouch.
The teacher didn’t realize that
I heard - ouch, that hurt! -
every word she said. I explained
it was just a habit, drawing while
listening to the radio, and she
informed me she wasn’t the
radio. (She wasn’t the art
teacher, either.)
Back to the drawing board:
One of my favorite radio shows
was Lux Radio Theater, spon-
sored every Monday night by the
complexion soap that movie
the melodramatic director, Cecil
B. DeMille, the program fea- :
mism Thursday — amid hopes outsjde the capital's oldest I
they'd seen the last of 2008's disap- medieval cathedral, Christ Church,
Zi ----- to hear the traditional New Year's
"I'm looking forward to 2009," Eve bell-ringing.
"ft is a wondrously beautiful note
on which to end what, for many
people, has been an awfully out-of-
, a
pearing jobs and slumping stocks.
”J’m Irtnlrinrr fnrwarrl fr» OHOQ ’’
said Randolph King of England,
whose retirement fund was gutted
in the global financial crisis. „
"Because it can't get,much worse/ 2008," ^id Gary Maguire,
x . volunteer pulling the ropes.
Some of the U.S. troops serving
afraid and to help each other.
Others tried to forget their trou-
bles, for at least one night.
Sydney, Australia, was the
world's first major city to ring in
... , thousands of
bell ringing and a tinge of opti- Dubliners and tourists gathered
”, ; ,77™ j.the capital's
champagne.
"We're not going to celebrate in a
big way. We're being careful," said
architect Moussa Siham, 24, as
shoppers in the affluent, area west erUpted over heads of two million
revelers.
"I hope that tonight we begin the
end of war and crisis,' said Roberto
year also brought Felipe, a 22-year-old construction
1 Worker, was shirtless with a beer in
that trick the eye and come alive cial lighting are required. The
when pages are turned. The look
is a bit like holography — only
it isn't.
"It's about the magic," Seder
said, "ft dates to my days as a
junior magician with my Remco
books have no external tabs to
get bent or torn since the pull is
automatic as kids make their
way from page to page.
Seder’s latest book "Swing!"
> was released in September and
magic kit. It's creating that illu- shows children at play. He sets a
' ■ ■ ~ ■ • • ■ young ice skater twirling and a
swimmer racing across a pool.
The book follows last year's
"Gallop!" that includes a horse
running, a butterfly fluttering
and a chimp swinging from vine
to vine. Action-packed text chai- single page, requiring less dis-
lenges kids to do the same.
"Are they trapped in there?"
nearly 4-year-old Siri
Waxenberg of New Ybrk City
asked after getting her first look
said, "ft dates to my days
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