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After personal meeting, mystery musician rocks Romney rally

Posted: February 28, 2012 at 10:07 am


By NBC's Garrett Haake

 

ROYAL OAK, Mich. – In the hours before addressing several hundred Tea Party activists in Milford, Mich. last Thursday, Mitt Romney had another important meeting with a much smaller audience.

In a suburban Michigan home, and in the company of senior aides, Romney spoke for an hour with Bob Ritchie, a Michigander of humble roots and a checkered past, who had risen to prominence in the entertainment industry. According to a Romney aide, the two men spoke for an hour – about Michigan, bringing back Detroit, and about U.S. troops overseas.

“The other day I got in my car and I drove out to a home of a fellow that lives in this area, and I asked him whether he might come here tonight,” Romney told the crowd at a rally here tonight. “I think you know him pretty well. He’s a native son of Detroit, loves Michigan, loves Detroit."

And tonight that meeting paid dividends for Romney. Ritchie, better known as Kid Rock – an often-R-rated musician known his off-stage antics and brushes with the law as much as his musical successes – performed a rousing rendition of his hit song "Born Free" at the conclusion of Romney's final rally before the polls open here in Michigan.

The two struck an odd image together on stage, with Romney in a blazer and button-down shirt, and Kid Rock scruffy in his trademark hat, battered jeans and a leather jacket over a white t-shirt. The two men shared handshakes before and after the performance, and Kid Rock planted a hesitant kiss on Ann Romney's cheek.

But somehow, it all worked, and the single-song concert roused more than a thousand Michiganders to their feet for Kid Rock (and for Romney), just hours before votes are cast in what has become a pivotal primary state.

"Mitt, if you’re elected president, will you help me help the state of Michigan?” Romney said the rock star asked him at their meeting. "I said I would. He said, ‘If you’re elected president, will you help me help the city of Detroit?’ I said I would.

"Then I turned to him, and I said, ‘By the way, given the fact that I’m willing to do those things, will you come here and perform a concert tonight for my friends, and he said he would," Romney continued.

A Romney aide told reporters Kid Rock e-mailed Romney personally the day after their meeting to confirm he would perform at today's event. Since then, the identity of the final rally's "Mystery Musical Guest" had been a closely-guarded secret, with campaign staffers sworn to secrecy. Even the marquee here at the Royal Oak Music Theatre promoted only Romney, and an anonymous musical guest.

Reporters speculated that Kid Rock might be the mystery guest. His song "Born Free" has introduced Romney at nearly every campaign event since December, and the two men's shared affinity for all things Michigan seemed to offer a bridge between their wildly divergent worlds.

Tonight, with the politics behind them (there was a political rally here -- largely forgotten after the musical performance), Mitt and Ann Romney took in the performance from the front row, surrounded by Secret Service agents. They smiled and nodded along to the music, clapping to the beat and taking it all in.

Tomorrow, Michigan votes, and the tune could change.

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Strong personal tyranny in 'Rutherford & Son'

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NEW YORK (AP) — Stones are flying around the "glass house" as family members battle for freedom from a tight-fisted tyrant, in "Rutherford & Son," another rediscovered gem currently performing off-Broadway at The Mint Theater.

Revived for its 100th anniversary year by Mint artistic director Jonathan Bank, the compelling drama is directed with tender attention to historical nuances by Richard Corley. The Mint first produced the dark domestic drama in early September 2001, but the opening night of Sept. 12 was overshadowed by catastrophic events

Children's book author Githa Sowerby had a surprise hit in 1912 with her strong play about a tyrannical father and industrialist, which debuted at London's Royal Court Theatre and also performed in New York the same year. Her focus was larger than one man, her play intended as an indictment of the harsh legacy of the impersonal industrial revolution. There was even a feminist undertone, as some of the women needed to deal with their weak-willed men.

Sowerby's success was a rarity in the male-dominated world of that time, aided by the theater manager posting her name as K.G. Sowerby so she could get a fair treatment of her work. Her knowledge of the glassworks was first-hand, as her grandfather had a successful factory which her father also ran for years. She set the scenes with ease, understanding the class system and the harsh attitudes of a powerful businessman. Her use of language is convincing, her characters recognizable and sympathetic.

John Rutherford is a proud, hardworking man, but cold and ruthless as a businessman, boss and father. His first priority is his beloved family glassworks factory in the north of England. When he gets a chance to "make or break" any one of his three adult children, he always chooses to break them, regarding them as his property and mere chess pieces in his plans to keep the factory going. He's not above tricking his most loyal right-hand man of 25 years, Martin, (a forelock-tugging personification by David Van Pelt,) who might sacrifice his own happiness in order to stay with Rutherford.

Robert Hogan plays this heartless bully with aplomb, his eyes twinkling meanly as he repeatedly hurls barbs and insults at relatives and employees. It's a meaty part but Hogan doesn't overdo it; frequent small gestures of contempt or weariness add to his rich characterization.

Sara Surrey is outstanding as Rutherford's single 36-year-old daughter Janet, who appears spirited yet obedient to her father until the exposure of a big secret she's been hiding. Surrey has several impassioned speeches in the second act, and does a remarkable job, expressively conveying a lifetime of Janet's hopes and feelings and disappointments in a few shattering minutes.

Eldest son John, expected to follow his father into the glassworks business, is instead determined to sell his father a money-saving formula and get away from him. Eli James is quite convincing as the feckless, ne'er-do-well John, so bullied and self-pitying that he hasn't been able to make a success of his life, even though he has a sickly infant son to provide for. Allison McLemore flutters around initially as John's supportive disappointed wife Mary, though she proves to have a hidden spine when push comes to shove.

James Patrick Nelson nicely embodies the third son, meek Richard, who became a cleric against his father's wishes. Dale Soules is colorful as a devoted mother of one of Rutherford's fired lower-class workers, who becomes increasingly and comically emboldened as she pleads her son's case to the unfeeling man.

Rutherford would rather be right and get his way even if it means complete unhappiness for his family. When he thinks he's won, he's actually lost almost everything that matters. "Rutherford & Son" is a complex tale of familial frustration and resentment, with hints of empowerment tantalizingly close.

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Turkish Taboos Challenged by Success of Movie About Gays

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Turkish movie-theater bookers were less than enthusiastic when two directors -- Mehmet Binay and Caner Alper -- approached them with a film inspired by the true story of a 26-year-old killed, allegedly by his father, for being gay. Even though Binay and Alper's film, Zenne Dancer, had won awards, they were told that Turkey was not ready for a mainstream gay movie.

"We were afraid and unsure too," says Binay. But the pair, who recently came out to Turkish media as a couple, persevered. They launched a largely self-funded all-out publicity campaign and "based it on everybody's right to life." The film has gone on to clock up 85,000 admissions since opening earlier this month, holding its own against other domestic and U.S. releases. Now theaters across the country are asking to screen it. (PHOTOS: A Brief History of Gay Rights)

"It goes to show that there is growing awareness," Binay says. "We've received so much positive feedback from viewers ... Gay teenagers who have gone with their parents, for example. A lot of emotional responses."

The film centers on Ahmet Yildiz, who was shot dead in Istanbul in 2008 in what newspapers have called "Turkey's first gay honor killing." Originally from a traditional family in southeastern Turkey, Yildiz went to Istanbul as a university student seeking freedom as a gay man. A year before he died, he had applied to local officials for protection, citing death threats from his father. But nothing was done. (PHOTOS: The Streets of Istanbul)

Yildiz's father is the chief suspect in the murder and is believed to be hiding in north Iraq. In his absence, the trial continues at a glacial pace. Yildiz's lawyer has accused officials of being halfhearted in their efforts to find him.

Directors Binay and Alper were Yildiz's friends. They were shooting a documentary on zenne dancers (male belly dancers) when they received news of his death. Eventually, they decided to merge the zenne story line into a fictional scenario based on Yildiz's story. Under the tagline "Honesty can kill," the film uses the fictitious friendship of Yildiz and the zenne dancer to show the different experiences of various characters in declaring their sexuality to their family and close friends.

"It was important to us to try and break down some of the prejudices associated with gays," says Mehmet. "These characters are not stereotypical. They have mothers, fathers, jobs ... These are normal people." (MORE: The Gay-Marriage Decision: Is It Too Narrow to Reach the Supreme Court?)

The success of Zenne Dancer is a reflection of Turkey's growing openness toward airing some old taboos -- a change that is paradoxically occurring under a conservative, Islamic-leaning government with a conflicted attitude about personal freedoms. Yet democratic progress is still patchy -- some 100 journalists are currently in jail, a number on a par with China. Turkey lacks adequate hate-crime legislation that might discourage intolerance of differences, and hundreds of Kurdish activists have been jailed in recent months as part of a crackdown on an alleged urban wing of the separatist PKK, the Kurdish separatist group. "Pushing the military back was a great democratic achievement," says Kutlug Ataman, a well-known artist who voted for the ruling Justice and Development Party because he saw it as a liberal alternative to military-dominated politics. "But I am seeing the same authoritarianism the military used to exercise coming back with a vengeance."

Still, it is perhaps this push and pull, the ongoing tussle between conservative and progressive, secular and religious and, yes, East and West, that makes Istanbul one of the world's more interesting cultural hot spots. As a co-founder of the city's independent film festival in 2001, I have watched the transformation firsthand. When we first set out and decided to feature a LGBT sidebar, everyone said it was foolhardy. Sponsors politely asked for their logos to be removed from that part of the festival. But 11 years on, the festival audience has grown from 20,000 people that first year to around 70,000, and that section is now one of its best sellers. (TRAVEL: Inside Turkey's Young Art Scene)

On Sunday, I watched Weekend, Andrew Haigh's much acclaimed wistful gay love story, in a sold-out Istanbul theater. The audience was a mixed crowd of gay and straight and of all ages. As the credits rolled to scattered applause, I felt suddenly hopeful. "Turkey needs for the zenne to live," says Mehmet. "It is a message of hope."

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Sam Bakhtiar Coaches Personal Trainer Into Making A Seven Figure Salary & Reaches His 100th Success Story

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Fitness Concepts founder, weight loss expert and personal trainer marketing guru Sam Bakhtiar recently celebrated his 100th success story on his website, http://www.super-trainer.com. It is his goal, through his various coaching programs, to breed as many millionaire fitness business owners as possible and improve the industry as a whole. As of February 2012, he cultivated his 100th millionaire, Craig Kastning.

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In a perfect world, every fitness trainer would be passionate, dedicated, knowledgeable, friendly – simply the best. A person looking to get fit could call up the local expert and receive top-notch service that truly worked. Gym memberships would soar due to individualized attention, successful results and record-high levels of engagement. Due to adopting tested, tried and true personal trainer marketing techniques and honing their craft, the personal trainers who survive this fitness industry evolution would stand to make millions of dollars each. This is the world Sam Bakhtiar imagines.

Sam Bakhtiar is the founder of the Fitness Concepts franchise in Chino Hills, California, as well as a weight loss expert, personal trainer, champion bodybuilder, author and mentor. Just this month, he celebrated his 100th success story, which has become a valuable go-to resource for fitness industry professionals to bolster their personal trainer marketing skills and improve their businesses.

Craig Kastning had been working hard for 13 years, but it wasn’t until the last two that he started coaching with Sam Bakhtiar and implementing the millionaire’s strategies. After Craig attended one of Sam’s dynamic personal trainer marketing masterminds, he wanted to learn more and receive one-on-one business coaching from the master himself. Now, thanks to Sam’s coaching program, Craig is the proud owner of a fitness studio that is on pace to turnover $1 million + by mid-2012.

“I learned so much from Sam,” Craig admits. “Probably the most important thing I took away from the program was that I had the realization the most valuable part of my business was my time. I learned how to prioritize, relinquish a little bit of control, automate my processes, and start systems that work to further my business along. This not only makes life easier, but it brings in much bigger profits and frees up your time so you can rekindle the passion you first felt for personal training.”

Craig says another important thing he learned from Sam’s personal trainer marketing is how to create multiple streams of income. “You should never stop adding to this list if you want to make millions of dollars. Unless you want to die working, you need to explore what is out there and start exploring passive income streams. You can franchise, open satellite boot camps, initiate coaching programs, and offer info products, for example.”

Craig is now one of the hundreds of people who will see a seven-figure salary in 2012, thanks to Sam Bakhtiar’s fitness marketing expertise. His knowledge can be implemented into any fitness business model – be it a martial arts studio, a boot camp, a yoga studio, a local gym, or a personal training franchise. Visit Sam’s personal trainer marketing website, http://www.super-trainer.com, for more details.

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Jackson coaching icon nearing end to decades-long career

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Posted: Monday, February 27, 2012 10:26 am | Updated: 12:28 pm, Mon Feb 27, 2012.

He’s seen his athletes run enough cross country miles that it would probably equal an excursion to El Paso and back. He’s observed approximately 960 quarters of football and he’s watched some 6,720 minutes of basketball.

Dan McFarlane never imagined he’d be posting such impressive numbers but then he never imagined a coaching career would encompass 30 years and touch four decades all at one school.

He’s short in stature but tall in respect at Jackson Intermediate School, his home away from home since 1982 when then Jackson Principal Ben Lenamon hired him and Steve Prusz his coaching sidekick for these last 30 years on the very same day.

But Jackson Intermediate’s iconic coaching team is about to go their separate ways. McFarlane, 64, is making the 2011-12 school year his last one, anxious to begin retirement and spending more time with his wife Mary of almost 40 years and their two grandchildren in Tomball.

“That’s one of the things I’ll probably miss when I retire is my close association with coach Prusz. All good things must come to an end sometime. Steve and I came to Jackson on the same day. Steve and I are on the same page. It’s a shared responsibility on what needs to be done. Obviously, something’s meshing when you’re working side-by-side with the same coach for 30 years,” McFarlane said.

McFarlane, who has 38 total years of coaching beginning with eight in Galena Park ISD, has been at Jackson so long that he’s seen five principals come and go. He’s been at Jackson so long McFarlane has coached at two Jackson Intermediate schools. Oh, and he’ll be the first to tell you he likes the air-conditioned gymnasiums and lockerroom version of Jackson far better.

And he’ll also be the first to tell you he wouldn’t trade all these past days, weeks, months and years for anything else. He knew coaching at a junior high and only a junior high was his calling in life. Not even the lure of two job offers at the high school level has been able to pull McFarlane away from Wildcat Country.

After all, he has leaned on the memories and lessons of a special junior high coach in the early 1960s when he attended HISD’s Hartman Middle School to guide him in his day-to-day dealings with his athletes.

“In junior high school, coach William Turney always encouraged everyone to give their best effort win, lose or draw," McFarlane said. "That left an impression on me all the way to today. He was the perfect mentor. He was low-key. He just treated kids with respect and got the most out of everyone. He never yelled. He was kind of like E.F. Hutton. When he spoke, everybody listened. That left a real big impression on me.

"The more I got into coaching, I realized in order for a school district to have a successful high school program, you have to have a solid junior high program where the kids are taught fundamentals. I’ve tried to model myself after him in the way you deal with students and the way you deal with your fellow faculty members and the public in general."

Pasadena High School varsity assistant football coach Cirilo Ojeda used a stop at Jackson to prepare him for the 5A job and he recalled the valuable input McFarlane provided him.

“As long as he’s been there, one of the things you want from someone like that is to soak everything up like a sponge," Ojeda said. "That was my first job so he showed me a lot of the ropes to the ins and outs of coaching the game. I really learned a lot to the point where I felt confident making that move from the intermediates to the high school.

"He wasn’t just a coach; he was a teacher-type at all times. Whether he was in the classroom, PE or athletics, he always had that teacher’s role.

Between the chalk lines, he and Prusz have become the symbol of Jackson sports.

“He was a well-respected coach within the district, always a very pleasant adversary,” Park View Intermediate coach Elton Blanchard said.

“There wasn’t a whole lot that he wouldn’t do to see his kids succeed,” said Thompson Intermediate’s John Fowler, who is also retiring at the end of this school year, ending decades of service to the school district.

McFarlane’s long-time presence at Jackson has undoubtedly meant so much to the student-athletes because in north Pasadena life has the potential to be harsh in more ways than one.

“We have a lot of single-parent families or grandma or grandpa taking care of the kids," McFarlane said. "The kids have a lot of baggage nowadays. It’s not just Pasadena, it’s all over. Athletics is another tool for kids to be successful.

"Here at Jackson, we encourage every kid to participate. At the same time, they’ve got to meet the standards of the school and the district. The value is the student learns about himself and with a little work, he can be successful.

“The junior high kids need all the mentoring they can get. That’s why I stayed where I’m at. One of the problems we have today is when I came to Pasadena we had a group of men who were basically the same age. We were all baby boomers. We all pretty much had the same idea that we were where we needed to be and provide that structure for the junior high kids.

"I don’t know if that would ever happen again. We see so much turn over now. I’m not sure we’ll ever see that point of stability."

As for athletic highlights, McFarlane says although Jackson rarely defeats Beverly Hills in football, perhaps his favorite memory is the 1998 season when both the eighth grade A and B teams won the district title and the A team had to go through Beverly Hills to do it. After a 15-14 win very early in the season over the Bears, the Wildcats came back in the title contest and won convincingly 38-14.

His second favorite memory occurred the year before when things weren’t going well.

“We didn’t win a football game, we didn’t win a basketball game and we weren’t very optimistic about our chances in track but that particular group could run long distances," McFarlane said. "We had a young man by the name of Kenneth Thornton. His nickname was Cooter. He took charge of that group. He dedicated that group to winning. They gave us everything they had in football and everything they had in basketball, they just didn’t have enough to get over the top. But they all had cross country bodies.

"That was back in the old Jackson and they got together in the neighborhood and ran every Saturday and Sunday. It was a very successful group of kids.”

His third were the two years that a future Summer Olympics gold medal winner walked the halls of Jackson Intermediate.

Kelly Willie attended Jackson from 1995 to 1997, before transferring to Houston Sterling High School where he was named Nike’s High School Athlete of the Year in 2002. From there, it was a scholarship to LSU where he was a four-time NCAA All-American in the 400-meters (indoors and out).

After his sophomore year at LSU, he anchored the United States’ 4 by 400 relay team at the Rome Summer Olympics that won the gold medal in 2004. By his senior year in 2006, he was ranked seventh in the world, fifth in the U.S.

“He had track potential all over him," McFarlane said. "He wasn’t too fond of football. I told him to just run fast and nobody would catch him. He set the 100-meter and the 200-meter record in the eighth-grade season. You don’t get a chance to coach a potential gold medal winner every day."

McFarlane recalled other names like Wes and Zach Berridge, Cedric Andrews, Armando Gonzalez, Rufus Bias and Edwin Flores, Jackson athletes who went on to feed Pasadena High School’s football program and fed it well with all-district accomplishments.

With anywhere from 130 to 150 seventh and eighth-grade students becoming Jackson athletes in any given year, it means that McFarlane has personally touched the lives of 4,500 youngsters over the 30 years. That’s the equivalent of every male and female student at two Class 5A high schools with a little left over. And not one has ever been allowed to throw in the towel.

“Quitting is not allowed here," McFarlane said. "My dad was a real big proponent that if you started it, you finished it. Quitting is the easy way. I’ve preached that to the kids. No matter how hard it is, give it your best effort. If you can look me in the eye and say you gave it your best, that’s all I can ask for. I don’t ask for anything more than that."

No doubt, McFarlane’s had his share of days and wondered if it’s all been worthwhile. But if as dedicated a junior high coach as this man has been, he’ll look back over his 30 years and answer with an emphatic yes.

“Building a relationship with a kid is the most important thing you can do," McFarlane said. "The kids have to feel you’re genuine. If they don’t feel you’re genuine, they won’t participate. They can read through it, pretty quick. I’ve told my athletes here at Jackson that my door is always open. If they need to come and talk, man-to-man, come on in. If I can’t help, I’ll find someone who can. That’s what I mean by genuine, that your concerned about them. Kids respect that. It stays with them forever."

Just like it stayed forever with McFarlane and his junior high coach so many years ago.

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