The flacks are as fickle as the Big Men they serve.
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Perhaps, as flacks do, he was just making a sketchy request clear.
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Flacks are more in demand than journalists are, if pay is any indicator.
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Not everyone could be evacuated, after all, and wonks evidently took precedence over flacks.
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It also rebuffed an unsolicited takeover offer from investment firm Flacks Group back in February.
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Elijah Cummings and his flacks twist themselves into pretzels: because in order to protect Mrs.
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In Gelman, feminism has one of New York's most charming and relentless flacks on its side.
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In Gelman, feminism has one of New York's most charming and relentless flacks on its side.
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Amidst the whiplash of his missteps, his media flacks appear to be enacting some kind of amateur hour.
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If the White House is serious about supporting an initiative, shouldn't its flacks have all the info at their fingertips?
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As we walked, a coterie of PR flacks furiously made quiet phone calls and texted one another about what was happening.
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Politicians learned that they had to get their own surrogates on the air, be they partisan journalists, hired flacks or abject toadies.
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The Trump era is one of indelicacy, profanity, and real—not imagined—misogyny, and its flacks deserve a language that matches up.
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Feature Flacks in this White House press office are getting enormous exposure — but potentially at a long-term cost to their credibility.
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It is frankly offensive to see flacks and enablers try to put Reagan's worthy mantle around the current president's shoulders, employing distortions and mental gymnastics.
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Confident that we can see through self-serving claims of the hacks and flacks, we question them, and even applaud those who voice our own sentiments.
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One reason the booths have survived is, arguably, the persistence of one man, Alan Flacks, a self-described pay phone buff who lives on West 100th Street.
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We were told to thumb our noses at the establishment, to push PR flacks in front of trains, to ignore the spin and get to the truth.
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This is the network of aggressive public relations flacks and lawyers who guard the secrets of those who employ them and keep their misdeeds out of public view.
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They met again in April at a happy-hour function in Washington that included "journalists and flacks from all sides of the aisle," as Mr. Burk put it.
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Allen, and Politico at large, upended the media ecosystem, covering political maneuvering as a sport for readers in the game itself — Hill staffers, lobbyists, flacks, hacks, and news junkies.
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When the West 100th Street booth was temporarily replaced in 1996 with a pedestal-style phone, Mr. Flacks kept calling company officials until they replaced it with a glass booth.
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Pruitt slashed half of the scientists from the EPA's board of scientific counselors this year, opening the way for fossil fuel lobbyists and paid flacks to muscle their way in.
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They were the president's connection to the Washington establishment: the donors, flacks and apparatchiks of both parties whose influence over politics and the economy many Trump supporters wish to upend.
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Per Nature, Pruitt appears to be preparing to consult with coal, gas and oil lobbying group the Heartland Institute on which industry flacks and climate denialists to replace the scientists with.
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This is about the time pundit flacks begin invoking the shibboleth of "transparency," an impossibility given that the landscape has degenerated into warring fiefdoms that resemble "Game of Thrones," dragons included.
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Once a hideout for legal flacks from the Alameda Courthouse across the street, it became the Ruby Room in 1999, retaining a rock wall that reportedly dates back to the 1950s.
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Once a hideout for legal flacks from the Alameda Courthouse across the street, it became the Ruby Room in 270, retaining a rock wall that reportedly dates back to the 22s.
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The show is populated by a truly loony cast of characters, most of whom come from very different worlds than the relatively privileged producers and flacks who populated 30 Rockefeller Plaza.
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Photo: APWith its endless parade of corporate shills, industry flacks, cronies, and quacks, it's become clear that there are no acts of pettiness too shabby—or grifts too cheap—for Donald Trump's administration.
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Flacks said on Monday it was in the preliminary stages of evaluating a possible deal to buy Laura Ashley, which would be would be limited to 2.748 pence in cash for each Laura Ashley share.
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Other voices • The NYT's Jim Rutenberg takes aim at "the network of aggressive public relations flacks and lawyers who guard the secrets of those who employ them and keep their misdeeds out of public view."
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To see Amazon mounting its own dark-arts PR campaign on Twitter — turning employees into paid flacks, without disclosing that they are being compensated as such — feels like a grim new development in our information sphere.
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So White House lawyers, Trump campaign flacks, key congressional offices and newsrooms are left counting the hours, poised to shape the end game of the most important investigation into a President's behavior in at least 20 years.
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And you — the girl he thinks is smart, the girl he prizes because she's successful and connected — will get to show off how comfortable you are flitting among the well-dressed Gossip Girl types and the PR flacks.
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Everyone's pressured: Facebook: Following the election, media experts and political flacks alike pointed the finger at Facebook, saying fake news on its platform helped sway the election, but Facebook has continued to profit and retain more users than ever.
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Other controversies have included Pruitt renting an apartment from an energy lobbyist at below market rates, defying the White House to give staff huge pay raises, and dodging normal congressional review procedures to stack positions at the agency with industry flacks.
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In so doing, we've formed the largest volunteer work force the corporate world has known, an army of unpaid interns, doing the jobs formerly left to flacks, shilling for Starbucks and Universal Pictures and Jennifer Lawrence and other multinational brands.
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With frenetic activity all around him — lighting people, sound engineers, hair-burners, makeup artists, flacks, security guards and the photographer Juergen Teller working in high-diva mode on a top-secret editorial assignment — the cherubic Mr. Rubchinskiy seemed focused and calm.
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Hence the Tax Policy Center estimate: Administration flacks and defenders are accusing TPC of reaching conclusions without adequate information; but the administration is making lots of assertions about what its plan will do, with apparently no more information than the center.
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Why else would Trump and his political flacks, such as personal attorney Rudy Giuliani, be so laser-focused on Biden, of all people -- who currently holds no public office but is a leading contender to take on Trump in the 2020 presidential election?
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In early August, Nature received documents suggesting Pruitt was moving ahead with a shamelessly cynical plan to require future EPA research be vetted in a "red team, blue team" format, which would turn its review board into a war between actual scientists and industry flacks.
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White House trade adviser Peter Navarro in an interview with The Hill on Thursday morning accused Bezos of pawning him off on "flacks and hacks" as he sought a personal meeting to talk about curbing the spread of counterfeits on e-commerce platforms like Amazon.
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White House trade adviser Peter Navarro in an interview with The Hill on Thursday morning accused Bezos of pawning him off on "flacks and hacks" as he sought a personal meeting to talk about curbing the spread of counterfeits on e-commerce platforms like Amazon.
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The White House's nominees to run environmental and scientific agencies have mostly been industry flacks, unqualified clowns, and people diametrically opposed to the functions of the agencies they're supposed to run—so mass resignations at environmental and scientific advisory boards is hardly a surprise.
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The vet's arrival on Mija's granddad's farm, accompanied by Mirando suits and flacks (notably Yoon Jae moon and Shirley Henderson), signals the end of the film's pastoral interlude, a forest romp as lyrical and magical as anything by the great Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki.
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In fact, as video evidence shows, cast member Brandon Victor Dixon had read out a scrupulously polite statement of the inclusive values celebrated in the performance; it gave the impression of having been filtered through so many Broadway PR flacks as to be rendered entirely uncontentious.
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That means undermining or watering down the Clean Power Plan, making sure the Clean Water Rule remains dead, stuffing the agency with industry-favored flacks while pushing out career staff, and generally avoiding the topic of climate change, just maybe doing it with less naked contempt for government.
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Because the majority of experts (campaign flacks, media members, pollsters, etc.) failed to accurately predict 2016 election outcomes, a growing emphasis is being placed on how best to allocate resources between scrubbing, double-checking and supplementing traditional voter file data with the online tools that grow more sophisticated every year.
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The Reagan administration insisted that government was always the problem, never the solution — and if science pointed to problems that needed a government solution, it was time to deny the science and bully the scientists, or at least make sure that panels helping set official policy were stuffed with industry-friendly flacks.
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Losing the visual cues and context of a real-life conversation makes it easier for each side to get beyond the artifice that brought the conversation into being (the layers of publicity material and email from flacks, the stiff dance of each side needing the other but not wanting to admit it).
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It would have been a good time for the yelling executive to weigh in on the allegations of sexual harassment at his company, the ongoing investigation into those claims, the assorted lawsuits Uber faces from its competitors, and the fact that tons of high-profile employees—even PR flacks—are headed for the exit.
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But what I will say, having covered TransferWise from Day One and reporting on Atomico pretty relentlessly over the years, is that Keane is possibly one of the hardest working flacks I know, and certainly one of the best briefed, typically making it his business to know the founders and startups he supports at least as well as anyone.
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It requires discerning when a reader complaint about, say, use of anonymous sources aligns with good long-term journalistic practice (when reporters too easily let campaign flacks speak anonymously to praise their candidates, for example) and when it cuts against it (when reporters allow FBI agents to speak anonymously, for example, in order to discuss a memo documenting an inappropriate meeting between the ex-director and the president and not get fired by the president's vengeful staff).
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But even then the real question will remain: Why in the world an athlete as successful as Jones, a man who was looking at a "eight-figure payday" at UFC 200, and who has a team of managers, PR flacks, nutritionists, and coaches on his side, would risk everything he's worked for by taking a supplement that hasn't been confirmed by an army of scientists to be pure as the driven snow (real snow, not the other kind).
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" Elliott asks his therapist.) We're not supposed to accept Elliott's Andy Rooney hot takes at face value (for one thing, he's still hallucinating his father as Mr. Robot), but his reflections are too often borne out by the show's cartoon vision of the world: in the land of the one per cent, soulless rich bitches get off to knife play, sad P.R. flacks mutter along to motivational tapes, and dumb gigolos switch from the news to "Vanderpump Rules.
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In 2005, MacMillan Stewart published Flacks' first book Bear With Me, about Flacks' personal experience with pregnancy and new motherhood. In 2007, Flacks became a featured columnist with the Toronto Star.
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Diane Flacks is a Canadian comedic actress, screenwriter and playwright.
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In 2009, Flacks wrote and performed in the play based on her book Bear With Me, directed by Kelly Thornton. In 2012, Flacks wrote the award winning play Luba, Simply Luba for Ukrainian Canadian comedian Luba Goy. In 2017, she wrote and performed in Unholy (2017). Flacks has regularly performed at the Tarragon Theatre and the collective feminist Nightwood Theatre in Toronto.
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Flacks was raised in the Jewish faith. Her early education took place in Jewish parochial schools. Flacks studied drama at Leah Posluns Institute in Toronto. At twenty seven years old, she came out as a lesbian.
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In the 1990s Flacks wrote for The Kids in the Hall and was twice nominated for an Emmy for her work. Flacks began acting on television in 2001 in the comedy series The Broad Side. She has co-written and starred in numerous television series since then, including P.R., Behind the Scenes and Listen Missy. In 2016, Flacks wrote six episodes for the Baroness Von Sketch Show.
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Flacks' best known performance is in the leading role of the lesbian film Portrait of a Serial Monogamist (2015). Prior to this, Flacks had performed as the main character's guardian angel in the sex comedy Too Much Sex (2000).
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Karen Martin (formerly Wolek) is a fictional character on the ABC Daytime soap opera One Life to Live. The role was originated on the show pilot by Niki Flacks July 15, 1968. Flacks continued in the role until the character's last appearance in 1970.
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Flacks Group is now a sole investor in Corizon Health. With the Flacks Group acquisition, Corizon Health managed to reduce its debt burden. The transaction included an acquisition of PharmaCorr that is Corizon's in-house pharmacy. Corizon Health’s PharmaCorr is the only in-house pharmacy in the corrections industry.
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It appears that Flacks started her official career in media with theater. Flacks' early works include three one-woman stage shows that she wrote and performed herself: Myth Me (1991), By a Thread (1997), and Random Acts (1997). She wrote Gravity Calling (1995) directed by Richard Greenblatt, co-wrote Sibs (2000) with Richard Greenblatt, and wrote Waiting Room (2015) directed by Richard Greenblatt. In 2000, Flacks performed in Smudge, a play in one act written by Alex Bulmer and directed by Alisa Palmer.
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This acquisition affected the company as business was redeployed throughout the group. In 2019 the company was bought from Flowserve by international investment firm Flacks Group and is now independent again in Hamburg. Flacks Group decided to return the company to its roots, renaming the company Pleuger Industries after its founder.
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The play was produced at the Stratford Festival from May 25 - October 11, 2019 with Diane Flacks as Nathan.
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Flacks was married to Janis Purdy and is now divorced. They have two children. Her older son received a Jewish education.
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In her own works, Flacks explores themes of Jewish identity, the relationship between women and religion, lesbian relationships, pregnancy, serious medical issues, and motherhood.
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Flacks is a regular contributor for the CBC Radio show Definitely Not the Opera. For almost eight years she has also worked as a CBC Radio National Parenting columnist.
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P.R. stars Diane Flacks, Ellie Harvie, and Fiona Reid, as high- profile public relations representatives in this behind-the-scenes look at the industry people love to hate. Alex Reed (Diane Flacks) is a fast-talker, liar, partier, and owner of Alexandra Reed & Associates, an up-and-coming metropolitan public relations firm. She and her partner (Ellie Harvie) create news and hype events to publicize an elite list of actors and celebrities. As their careers spin out of control, their personal lives do, as well, leading to many quirky misadventures.
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Spark Public Relations was founded in 1999 by Donna Sokolsky Burke and Chris Hempel, who started the firm after working at Netscape. Its early clients were Silicon Valley start-ups and former Netscape colleagues.Boutin, P. (November, 1999), "Lack of Flacks", WIRED Magazine, Vol. 7, Issue 11.
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Stephen J. Morris, "Vietnam's Vietnam," Atlantic Monthly, January 1985, "ABC Flacks For Hanoi," Wall Street Journal, 26 April 1990"Skeletons in the Closet," The New Republic, 4 June 1990 and described "extensive fighting" between the US-backed forces of the Khmer People's National Liberation Front and the Khmer Rouge.
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Flacks began her acting career as a child, in a touring production of Cinderella where she played both the wicked stepmother and fairy godmother. As an adult, she has worked in Canadian and U.S. television, radio, news, and film before becoming an independent performance artist, playwright, and writer.
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Too Much Sex is a 2000 Canadian sex comedy film directed by Andrew Ainsworth, produced by the Canadian Film Centre and starring Michael McMurtry, Janet Kidder (niece of Margot Kidder) and Diane Flacks. Sky Gilbert and Christie MacFadyen (who starred in The Top of His Head) also have minor appearances.
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New York Times February 2, 1943; ProQuest Historical Newspapers pg. 21. he wrote to Eleanor Roosevelt (First Lady at the time), asking her to visit the exhibit, but she did not. He also sent some of his photographs to the President, for which he was politely thanked.Edited by Kohn, Mara Vishniac and Flacks, Miriam Hartman.
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Most top-level publicists work in private practice, handling multiple clients. The term publicist was coined by the legal scholar Francis Lieber to describe the public-like role of internationalists during the late nineteenth century. Publicists are sometimes called flacks which traces back to Gene Flack, who was a well-known movie publicist in the 1930s.
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The production starred Diane Flacks, Sherry Lee Hunter, and Kate Lynch. Smudge was nominated for the Chalmers Canadian Play Award. In 2003, Bulmer emceed Smashing Stereotypes Productions' Culture Cauldron II, a cabaret of performances inspired by disability performed at Ryerson University. Bulmer is one of the founders of Invisible Flash, a theatre company which she is currently the artistic director of.
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As one reviewer noted, "Rebuilding Labor breaks new ground in providing rich empirical material and careful analysis for understanding the dynamics of contemporary labor organizing. The book as a whole is a very persuasive demonstration of the crucial value of systematic empirical research for the labor movement."Richard Flacks, University of California at Santa Barbara, quoted in "Rebuilding Labor," Cornell University Press, no date. Accessed 2009-09-02.
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Merlino was born in 1922 in Trenton, New Jersey, the son of Pasquale and Margarita (Fuccello) Merlino. He attended Trenton High School and then served in the U.S. Army, mainly in the Mediterranean area. He received a bachelor's degree from Seton Hall College in 1948 and a law degree from Fordham University in 1951. From 1956 until 1989, he was the senior partner in the Trenton law firm of Merlino, Rottkamp & Flacks and its predecessors.
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CMS became Corizon Health, Inc., in 2011, after essentially merging its operations with PHS Correctional Healthcare (previously known as Prison Health Services, Inc.), its largest competitor in the correctional health care industry. PHS's headquarters, in Brentwood, Tennessee, is now the headquarters for Corizon Health. The company has been majority-owned by hedge fund BlueMountain Capital Management for a few years until the private investment company Flacks Group acquired the company in 2020.
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This unit elected local surveyor and land-owner Clack Stone, as captain and commander of the settlement's militia contingent. The Apple River settlement, at the time of the fort's completion, was home to several families who had traveled long distances: the Crains, the Armstrongs, and others. Some families, like the Flacks, the Howards, and Lawhorns and others took up residence in nearby cabins. The Murdock family already resided in a homestead near the new fort.
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Moose TV is a Canadian television sitcom, airing on Showcase in the 2007-2008 television season. The series stars Adam Beach as George Keeshig, a Cree from the fictional community of Moose in northern Quebec, who returns home after a decade living in Toronto to become manager of the local community television station. The cast also includes Gary Farmer, Jennifer Podemski, Nathaniel Arcand, Michelle Latimer, Diane Flacks, and Billy Merasty. The series' head writer is Paul Quarrington.
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In 1981, the Flacks co-authored a book, Ambling and Scrambling on the Appalachian Trail, about their eight-year project of hiking the Appalachian Trail as retirees. The book's cover photo shows the older couple, embracing and smiling while holding hiking sticks. They also toured giving lectures and slideshows about their hiking hobby, and radio interviews promoting the book. In 1985, they established the Flack Achievement Award and the Flack Faculty Award for Teaching at Swarthmore College.
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1997 marked the highly successful Martha Steward Projects and The Attic, the Pearls and Three Fine Girls and the resignation of founding artistic director Sky Gilbert. Sarah Stanley was appointed as Sky Gilbert's successor in April, and Gwen Bartleman was appointed general manager in July. During the 1997–1998 season, BIBT's profile rose with the premiere of Brad Fraser's Martin Yesterday and Diane Flacks' Random Acts, plus the 20th anniversary of Rhubarb! curated by festival director Franco Boni.
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Young intern Dr. Larry Wolek (Paul Tulley, Jim Storm, from 1969 onward Michael Storm) falls in love with Meredith Lord (Trish Van Devere, Lynn Benesch) the younger of two daughters of Victor Lord (Ernest Graves, Shepperd Strudwick). They initially met when Larry helped treat Merrie's heart condition. Victor disapproved of Larry as a suitor for his daughter and forbade her seeing him. Frustrated, Larry turned to Karen Martin (Niki Flacks), a nurse who saved his life when he was trapped in a fire.
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But Barker's most perverse touch is that he makes these creatures the good guys (no wonder the PR flacks were bamboozled). Despite their grotesque appearance, they're a more colorful and engaging bunch than the emissaries of the normal world. Barker piles on more subversive subtext than his story can bear — it's a monster movie, after all — but his daft, Grand Guignol vision has real power. The quality that freaked out the studio, Barker's ambition, is precisely what makes Nightbreed so impressive.
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P.R. was a Canadian television sitcom, which aired on CBC Television in 2000. The show starred Diane Flacks as Alexandra Reed and Ellie Harvie as Jill Hayes, partners in a public relations firm. Fiona Reid also starred as office manager Dierdre Duncan, a mysterious older British woman in the vein of The Avengers’ Emma Peel, who frequently hints at a shady past. The show was widely characterized in the media as a Canadian adaptation of Absolutely Fabulous, although its humour was much less campy.
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Allgood Butts is a young promiscuous male hairdresser whose goal in life is to sleep with as many women as possible (already in the first scenes we are told he has slept with 389 women). His guardian angel (played by Diane Flacks) does not approve of his philandering and confronts him while he has sex with his 390th woman, telling him that if he sleeps with another woman, he'll die. Allgood's struggle with his temptation becomes even more difficult when two attractive women enter his life.
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Evidence of bell pits is also clearly visible in the woodlands around Duke Wood, down the hill from Cliffe Woods, in Clayton West. Joseph Norton was the owner of a number of mines around the 1870s which he used to mine to produce coal to power his textile mills located at Cuttlehurst and in Scissett. One of these was a mine in Duke Wood. This shaft still acts as an emergency exit and air vent for the privately owned "Flacks" mine, the only mine still operating in the village.
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Portrait of a Serial Monogamist is a Canadian romantic comedy film, which premiered on the LGBT film festival circuit in 2015 before going into general theatrical release in 2016."'Portrait of a Serial Monogamist' is a slight rom- com". Los Angeles Times, January 28, 2016. Written and directed by John Mitchell and Christina Zeidler, the film stars Diane Flacks as Elsie Neufeld, a lesbian who breaks up with her latest girlfriend Robyn (Carolyn Taylor) and accepts a dare from her friends to stay single for five months instead of rushing into a new relationship.
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The younger brother of Anna (Doris Belack) and Vince Wolek (Antony Ponzini), Dr. Larry Wolek (Paul Tulley) is introduced as the boyfriend of rich socialite Meredith Lord (Trish Van Devere), a match which Meredith's father, media magnate Victor Lord (Ernest Graves), does not approve. In July 1968, Victor pushes Meredith into an engagement with the more socially acceptable Dr. Ted Hale (Terry Logan). Meredith's engagement to Ted ends when he stumbles down a Llanview Hospital staircase to his death while arguing with Larry. Nurse Karen Martin (Niki Flacks) tells police she overheard Larry and Ted arguing over Meredith and Larry threatening Ted, and Larry is arrested for murder.
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The company's 2005–2006 season included shows such as R.M. Vaughan's The Monster Trilogy, Marie Brassard's Jimmy, the Scandelles' remount run of Under the Mink, Salvatore Antonio's heartfelt family drama In Gabriel's Kitchen and Daniel MacIvor's A Beautiful View. The company also workshopped a new play by award-winning artist d'bi young, and supported presentations of Ed Roy's The Golden Thug (Topological Theatre) and Sky Gilbert's Bad Acting Teachers and the workshop of Diane Flacks' new one-woman show Bear With Me (Nightwood Theatre). The company's Queer Youth Arts Programme brought youth into Buddies throughout the season, to learn about theatre, see shows and meet artists and to create their own performance for Pride Week.
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One organization, It Gets Better Canada, created a 12-minute video which featured a number of Canadian LGBT public figures, including Deb Pearce, Rick Mercer, Rex Harrington, Ann-Marie MacDonald, Enza Anderson, Diane Flacks, Brad Fraser, Mark Tewksbury, George Smitherman, Peter Fallico, Laurie Lynd and the cast of 1 Girl 5 Gays, talking about their own experiences of coming out in a documentary interview format. In addition to the Trevor Project, this video also endorsed two similar Canadian services, Kids Help Phone and Toronto's Lesbian Gay Bi Trans Youth Line. A similar video was subsequently released by a group of Canadian Broadcasting Corporation employees, including national network figures such as Jian Ghomeshi, Sook-Yin Lee, W. Brett Wilson and Brent Bambury as well as numerous other staffers and freelancers, speaking about their experiences of bullying on a variety of issues, including sexuality, race and disability. Former politicians Michael Ignatieff and Jack Layton also released videos when they were in office.
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