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Carrasco and her positions on topics pertinent to the city of San Jose. While I live in District 3, I realize that all councilmembers’ votes have an effect on me as a San Jose resident. I hope Magdalena and her campaign team will post a schedule of events of where she is holding her public forums, public speeches and candidate “debates� so her potential supporters can learn more. (I did not see anything on her FaceBook page or her website.) Tina Morrill, SanJoseInside.com

Dancing With The Pols She’s a pretty face and engaging personality, but I’ve heard nothing of substance coming from her. But she can dance around a subject she knows nothing about like a pro.

20 to 30 percent of the world’s plant and animal species will be at increased risk of extinction by 2050. Fortunately, there is something that can be done. This summer, the House of Representatives passed legislation to both reduce emissions of the greenhouse gases that are triggering climate change and take steps to safeguard natural resources and wildlife threatened by the changes in climate already set in motion. Now the Senate is moving on similar legislation recently introduced by Sens. Boxer and Kerry. However, reducing carbon emissions is not enough. Any comprehensive climate and energy legislation must dedicate 5 percent of the funding generated to safeguarding ďŹ sh and wildlife and the natural resources on which we all rely. Our senators should know that their constituents expect nothing less. Mrs. Elizabeth De Medeiros, Rohnert Park

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Thank you, Metro, for writing about this new candidate. We really do need more stories like this and new people on the council. Four to eight years seems like a lifetime to endure some of these bad electeds. I hope people rethink their choices this time and vote in new! They can’t be any worse than some of what we

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We saw you, the two of you, at the Tech Museum’s “Star Trekâ€? exhibit. Evidently, you feel the need to prove that Trekkers can do more than quote fake science jargon from a TV show, because your public display of affection was stomach curdling. My kids and I didn’t appreciate the sight of you pressing your knee into your boyfriend’s prow, or seeing his hands all over your stern, all the while you two “made outâ€? as if the only way you could breathe was to suck air from the mouth of the other. Shame on you! Yes, my kids are the ones who shouted “Get a room.â€? You need more than that. Get a clue! The Tech is full of kids, you efďŹ ng sick weirdos! SEND US your anonymous rants and raves about your co-workers or any badly behaving citizen—or about citizens you admire. I SAW YOU, Metro, 550 S. First St., San Jose, 95113, or via email to Isawyou@metronews.com.

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HERE IS no more picturesque sight in Campbell than 7,000 vinyl records, in boxes, on the floor of a retail establishment—especially when each one costs 25¢. The joint in question is On the Corner Music, a tiny little gem at the suburban crossroads of East Campbell and Dillon avenues. The folks over at KSCU-FM (103.3), Santa Clara University’s radio station, needed to unload a large portion of their back vinyl catalog, and someone decided that Jeff Evans at On the Corner Music was a worthy recipient. Following an afternoon of stylized wandering, I once again appeared at the threshold of this fine establishment. You see, Record Store Day, a national event, will soon be upon us— Saturday, April 17, to be exact. Independent record stores across the country stage parties, and recording labels release limited-edition collector’s items just for the occasion. Locally speaking, 7,000 donated vinyl LPs for 25¢ each at a corner store in Campbell is a perfect way to begin the celebration. Whenever Jeff and I have conversation, we wind up discussing the last quarter-century of something in San Jose. As we stood there, another patron told us he saw Pat Benatar at the Bodega in Campbell decades ago. This nugget immediately triggered a mutual diatribe about long-gone Campbell clubs like Puma’s, Smokey Mountain, and Gilbert Zapp’s. Personally, I would say “goodbye and good riddance” to each one of those, but they were indeed quite popular among the commercial herds. The nostalgia didn’t stop there. Merely occupying the same suburban corner with 7,000 vinyl LPs sparked tons of forgotten record-store memories in Santa Clara Valley. It was a throwback to 25 years ago in San Jose, when LPs dominated the landscape, at least in my immediate sphere of influence. Independent places were common—Underground Records, Flashback Records, Fantasy Records, Rowe’s Rare Records, Recycled Records and the Dedicated Record Collector just to rattle off a few. I remember all of them. The only one with historical lineage still existing from that era is Big Al’s Record Barn, which used to be on El Camino Real a long time ago. Epitomizing the concept of the grumpy old record-store dude, Big Al was one of those curmudgeons who would stock a dozen used copies of something like the Jim Nabors Christmas Album and still charge $15 for each one. And there’s more. The Dedicated Record Collector set up shop in a house on Bascom Avenue just north of San Carlos. He would stock all sorts of indie singles one couldn’t find at Tower. Back then, Streetlight Records was located As we stood there, in another house on Bascom, just down the street from where it sits another patron told us now. Around the same time, Fantasy he saw Pat Benatar Records in El Paseo de Saratoga at the Bodega in Shopping Center was the best place for obscure European heavy-metal Campbell decades ago records. Anything with a pentagram or crucified nuns on the cover—stuff actually worth $15—they had it. Even the chain stores were pretty decent in those days, and every teenager in the ’80s spent time at places like Tower Records or Record Factory. In fact, one can make an argument that the entire stretch of Blossom Hill Road between Almaden Expressway and Oakridge never recovered after the demise of Record Factory, Warehouse and Rainbow Records. (Some would add Fred’s Soccer Shop, but that’s another column.) Circa 1985, this was when you would take the bus to Record Factory and argue with the stoner dude behind the counter about whether TDK blank cassettes were better than Maxell blank cassettes. This was the highlight of culture in south San Jose in the mid-’80s, as there was absolutely nothing else to do. I am not trying to relive the past. I’m just revisiting the past. There’s a big difference. These days, one actually has to do some legwork to find a decent copy of the Astromusical House of Aquarius LP for less than five bucks. I applaud Jeff Evans at On the Corner Music for carrying on the vinyl tradition. God bless the concrete and chaos of Campbell, Calif. Send me your memories of Campbell: SiliconAlleys@metronews.com

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iPad: The FCC Dissects It So We Don’t Have To The FCC recently published photos of the internals of Apple’s upcoming iPad due to be released tomorrow. In the original FCC document all of the chips in the device were covered with gray boxes, a little bit of PhotoShop revealed what we wanted to see.

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The initial details aren’t all that surprising. The iPad is mostly screen and battery, the motherboard itself appears to be smartphone-sized. The bulk of the cost of this device is in the display and the casing, which means Apple is making a killing off each device sold. It makes sense given that Apple had little interest in selling low margin netbooks, but this is a different story entirely. We’re expecting the arrival of our iPad tomorrow, but luckily with the FCC’s documents published we don’t have to risk destroying ours to have a peek at the inside. More details coming! —BRIAN KLUG, ANANDTECH.COM

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Purchasing Power Orwell fans take note: PG&E’s billed its war on public utilities as the ‘Right to Vote Act’ By Kylie Mendonca TROJAN horse of an amendment is slated for California’s June 8 ballot. Proposition 16, the “Taxpayers Right to Vote Act,” as it’s been dubbed by its corporate sponsor, has a proud, democratic ring to it. But this initiative has nothing to do with any existing right to vote. In fact, many local politicians say Prop. 16’s sole purpose is to eliminate consumer choice and cripple local governments seeking alternative energy sources. The Taxpayers Right to Vote Act is really about energy and who owns the right to sell energy to the public. If it passes, opponents say, Californians would be tied to just a handful of energy companies, and their dominance in existing and new

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markets would essentially be written into the state constitution. Though three investor-owned utility companies would benefit from this arrangement, so far there has been just one contributor to the Yes on 16 campaign. Since the beginning of this year, Pacific Gas and Electric Company—PG&E—has donated more than $25 million to the cause and pledged as much as $10 million more. A representative for PG&E declined to discuss the initiative, merely confirming that its board of directors had approved the expenditure. Former California energy commissioner and current cochair of the American Council on Renewable Energy John Geesman

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has become one of the most vocal opponents of the initiative. He calls Prop. 16 a “tapeworm.” “There is no precedent for this,” Geesman says. “What you have is a single utility company trying to write, into the constitution, a business advantage. I was surprised when I heard PG&E was circulating a petition for signatures. But I never thought it would go through.” California’s initiative process was established as a powerful tool for the masses to wield against corporate bullying or political indifference. It was used sparingly until the last two decades, but now anyone with money who wants to get an initiative on the ballot can hire a small army to get signatures.

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April 7-13, 2010 California’s constitution has grown comically large, and many believe that the process has been hijacked. Prop. 16, which was renamed the “New Two-Thirds Vote Requirement For Local Public Electricity Providers” by Attorney General Jerry Brown, is a response to an increasing number of local governments that are interested in procuring energy for their communities. The process by which municipalities form coalitions is called Community Choice Aggregation, or CCA. Of course, most people in California buy energy from PG&E. And PG&E is not taking this lightly. If Prop. 16 passes, it would amend the state constitution to require a two-thirds approval (rather than a simple majority) by local voters before a CCA could access any public money or borrow. It would require the same two-thirds approval by any community that a CCA wanted to expand into, whether or not public money or bonds were involved. In its assessment of the initiative, the independent Legislative Analyst’s Office said the voterapproval requirements could deter communities from pursuing CCA at all. State Sen. Mark Leno has called it “a stake in the heart of CCA.”

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legislation that created CCA—they were even included in the drafting of the bill. After the ’90s energy deregulation led to rolling blackouts, price surges 10 times higher here than in other parts of the country and the eventual crash of our energy markets, California lawmakers decided to take back control. In 2002, they passed A.B. 117, removing barriers for local communities to manage their own energy needs and allowing whole groups of cities or towns to come together and contract to produce their own energy. In the Bay Area, CCA has become synonymous with “green” energy. PG&E, along with other for-profit utilities, was considered a partner in the effort to diversify energy in the state, and written into the bill was a clause that PG&E and others would “cooperate fully” with any CCA. Many lawmakers are pointing to that clause now, asking what happened. In a Dec. 22, 2009, letter to PG&E’s chairman and CEO Peter Darbee, eight state senators called PG&E’s support of Prop. 16 “misguided” and possibly illegal, stating that “if PG&E has recanted its support of CCA, it has an obligation to seek those revisions in the legislature. To use the initiative process to pursue PG&E’s self-interests and avoid engaging your partners in the AB 117 agreement calls into question your company’s integrity.” Leno was among the letter signers. “I fundamentally believe that this is an attempt by a single corporation to amend the state constitution, and that is a sinister abuse of our initiative process,” he says. PG&E did not publicly respond to the letter, but days later it made another $3 million donation to the Yes on 16 campaign. The utility estimates it will spend a total of $35 million on ads. Last month, a group of six publicly owned utilities and the city and county of San

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Francisco filed suit to disqualify Prop. 16, claiming that it contains “false and misleading” information. The suit attacks the initiative for omitting PG&E’s name from the measure. Yes on 16 spokeswoman Robin Swanson, however, says that the suit is a perfect example of why it needs to pass, because citizens are routinely being left out of the conversation. “Our opponents,” she says, “would rather file a lawsuit behind closed doors to stop people from voting than talk to voters in the open forum of the statewide election. “I think this is exactly what the initiative process should be used for, to constitutionally require votes when a local government wants to spend local money to go into the risky retail electric business.” PG&E’s generous support of the Yes on 16 campaign, and for the Coalition for Reliable and Affordable Energy—a group that spent more than $9 million opposing a greenenergy feasibility study in San Francisco two years ago—has led many to wonder if PG&E’s rates are set too high. “The PUC sets rates at a level that allows them to raise money for infrastructure improvements,” John Geesman says. “Not to create a $35 million slush fund.” PG&E claims the money came from shareholders. In February, the utility notified its shareholders that the board of directors had authorized spending as much as $35 million on Prop. 16, and that the value of shares would drop by 6 to 9 cents as a result. Shareholders, including CalPERS— the retirement fund for 1.6 million state employees, which is severely underfunded— were not given an opportunity to vote on the expenditure. “PG&E wants to have all the people voting,” Geesman says. “Shouldn’t their shareholders get a chance to vote?” M

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STEALING SAIGON

Gas thieves and rampant corruption contributed to South Vietnam’s collapse. Now, the only person convicted of corruption amidst the rampant kleptomania declares his innocence. By Larry Engelmann

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I spoke with a dozen other members of the Saigon Embassy staff and they too remembered Simmons and recommended I find him if I wanted a real insider’s account of Saigon’s last days. Gen. John Murray, the first American defense attaché in South Vietnam and Gen. Homer Smith, the second and last defense attaché, added their voices to the chorus. But nobody had any idea where he was living or even if he was living.

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him and the South Vietnamese officers who remembered him had never forgotten David Simmons. After a timely tip from a friendly former South Vietnamese lieutenant colonel, I found him. He was not happy when I called and identified myself. He asked how I’d gotten his telephone number and I told him. It was a matter of persistence and luck, I said. I mentioned Gens. Murray and Smith and he responded positively to their names and asked what they’d said about him. After I told him, he said we could meet—once. He gave me his address. I told him I was not far away. I’d be there in 30 minutes. 16

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At the time Simmons owned a small Vietnamese restaurant with his wife in Southern California. Simmons kept the books and supervised the staff—made up mostly of his own children. His wife, who is Vietnamese, was the cook. The family lived in an apartment above the restaurant. There were eight children, Simmons told me. And they were very happy. The children didn’t know about his experience in Vietnam and after. He had maintained his anonymity and a low profile. “Because Gen. Murray recommended you talk to me and because I respect Murray’s judgment, we can talk,” he said. He asked me to wait for a decent interval of time, though, before publishing his story. And he asked me not to say specifically where he lived. He did not want to be found again.

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Simmons was hired to work on the military’s quality control for petroleum import and distribution. “They offered me the position because I had a background in the petroleum field,” he remembers. He worked his way up until he was appointed chief of the petroleum section for the DAO. Simmons says he found everything “pretty cut and dried in that period of time—until the squeeze came.” The squeeze was the decision of the Arab-led Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) following the outbreak of the Yom Kippur War in October 1973 to embargo oil to the United States and to nations affiliated with it. Because of Gen. Murray’s concern about turning money over directly to governments in Southeast Asia to purchase petroleum, it was decided that Simmons would be the official “petroleum representative” from countries in the region designated “affiliates of the U.S.” by OPEC: Thailand, Cambodia, Laos and South Vietnam. The appointment was approved and directed by the U.S. Department of Defense.

“This was all a ruse to find an avenue to continue purchasing refined petroleum products for use by the military in those four countries,” Simmons says. His responsibilities were to negotiate contracts with petroleum-producing nations, have the raw product refined through Singapore and oversee imports. He had a staff of two, as well as some Vietnamese secretaries. “So it was a tremendous task to begin with,” Simmons says. “We had to disguise the ways and means of having money transferred so that it could not be traced directly to the U.S. government, and that involved getting the National Bank of Vietnam to accept the money transfers and checks, which I would hand-carry down to them. “They in turn used an elaborate wiretransfer method to get these millions of dollars moved in two or three days’’ time to accounts in Singapore and Hong Kong. Then I had authority to disperse those funds to refining companies and petroleum-producing companies in order to pay for the product.” Simmons was reminded daily that “if

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this mission fails, the war in Vietnam and in Indochina will stop. Without petroleum products a military effort cannot continue. It stops. It freezes with the engines.”

Missing Millions Simmons purchased gasoline, diesel, jet fuel and the other aircraft fuels and lubricants. He was successful, he says, in providing everything the Defense Department approved for South Vietnam and the three other nations he represented.

‘Every Honda in Saigon was being driven on stolen gasoline. And a lot of it was going to the other side—the enemy was getting it by the truckload from South Vietnamese army officers. We were fuelling our enemies as well as our friends.’ —DAVIS SIMMONS

“It was my job to determine how much was needed on a reality basis,” he says. “It was also my job to assure that it was being distributed wherever it was most needed and to determine how much was needed for any particular types of operations that were planned. It was an overwhelming job, really. And no one was there to help me with it.” Eventually, Simmons says, he asked the DAO to assign a Government Accountability Office (GAO) auditor to his office to examine the numbers. “The volume of things that were taking place, whether or not the product was getting to where it belonged and in the quantities that it was supposed to,” he says, was unclear to him. The operation

lost all transparency. “Although we were getting hundreds of Vietnamese officer signatures on receipt documents—who really knew? It was an impossible task.” The product was tested at the delivery points by a Hong Kong contractor, Simmons recalls. “They were there for quality and quantity assurance. But who knows if the numbers they provided were accurate? I had no idea. It was these concerns that caused me to write a letter through Gen. Murray to the GAO saying, ‘I think you guys really ought to come in and look at this.’ “First of all, I was concerned for my own tail end. So, GAO came in and took a look. And my attitude was, if GAO doesn’t find anything wrong, I’m not going to worry about it.” Simmons says he requested the audit when he realized he’d lost control of a situation involving millions and millions of dollars. “The majority of the expense of the military budget in any military operation like that is fuel,” he says. “And because the price rose from 16 cents a gallon to 40 or 55 cents a gallon overnight, we stretched what was already a huge budget to out of bounds.” Problems multiplied. Some of Simmons biggest troubles came from problems developed in acquiring lubricating oil. He says a contractor for quality assurance knew about those problems and he offered to get it. Simmons supplied him with a Request for Purchase, and the contractor returned with an offer. Simmons inspected the contractor’s facilities, traveling twice to Singapore and once to Hong Kong. He saw storage areas with massive quantities of lubricating oil that met military specifications. “So I gave him a contract,” Simmons says. “And he never supplied the oil. I paid him the money. He disappeared. Who was at fault? I went to prison for it!” he says. Simmons says he still doesn’t know if the oil was delivered or not. He later learned that the contractor had borrowed money from two banks in Saigon. Simmons’ wife was associated with one of them, and that made it easier for the contractor to get the loan—a fact Simmons didn’t learn about until later. “She came to me 90 days before we pulled out of Vietnam,” he recalls. “And she asked, ‘Have you paid this guy for his oil?’ And that surprised me since I had never discussed my business with her. So I asked, ‘How do you know about him?’ Then she told me that he had defaulted on the payments of his loan. The bank asked his wife to find out what had happened, and Simmons told her that he had paid the contractor. 20

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“That is when I should have reported, ‘Hey, guys, we’ve got a conict of interest.’ I didn’t do that.â€? The loans from the Saigon bank were not repaid. The money disappeared in wire transfers from Hong Kong to Saigon. Even after leaving government service months before the fall of Saigon, Simmons anxiously tried to follow the money. Meanwhile, the North Vietnamese Army was approaching Saigon. The Vietnam War and America’s role in Southeast Asia were rapidly coming to an end.

Thievery on High Simmons says he remembers confronting corruption on a daily basis. And, he adds, “It was by no means restricted to the Vietnamese government. He recalls a meeting with a Vietnamese Air Force commander, Gen. Tran Van Minh. Simmons demonstrated how much fuel he needed, based on his inventory of aircraft, the number of sorties planned and other factors. “General Minh’s immediate comment,� he says, was “‘What do we do about people stealing it?� Simmons says he was stunned by the question and responded, “That’s your problem. It’s got to be stopped.� At that moment, an American Air Force colonel who was in the meeting said, “You have to give them 25 percent allowance for theft.�

“I won’t do that!â€? Simmons remembers responding. “But the colonel said, ‘You god-damned will do that!’ “The colonels, the captains, the lieutenants in the Vietnamese Air Force were stealing fuel and supplies right along with the corporals, the privates, the sergeants,â€? Simmons says. Every Honda in Saigon was being driven on stolen gasoline. And a lot of it was going to the other side—the enemy was getting it by the truckload from South Vietnamese army officers. We were fueling our enemies as well as our friends.â€? Simmons looked for some way to stop the theft and sale. “I thought that if I had a means of identifying it, separate from the gasoline on the civilian side, then we might have a means of detecting where it was coming from and perhaps conďŹ scating it and getting it back. “So I had all military gasoline dyed blue. Not red anymore. But blue. So then you drove down the streets of Saigon and out to Bienhoa and saw all the shops selling gasoline in little bottles, and they were all blue. Who was buying it? The policeman was buying it for his Honda and the sergeant would stop and buy a couple bottles for his Honda on the way home, knowing full well that it was stolen from the military. There was no other way it could have been blue.â€? There was an additional problem of fuel contamination. There was a slowdown of

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the military effort at one point because of fuel contamination. “We lost nine aircraft,” Simmons says. “The fuel at Tan Son Nhut Airbase was filthy all of the time. I was scared to death to fly out of there on a civilian aircraft.” He reports that the Vietnamese carried fuel around in decrepit trucks with dirty filters. Fuel quality, he points out, is crucial in aircraft. “When the Vietnamese military tells you that at the end of the war they did not have enough jet fuel to get their airplanes into the air, that was, excuse the phrase, straight bullshit! Until the very last day they had fuel available to them, more than enough.”

Stooge or Shyster? That is how Simmons remembers it now. The Justice Department, however, has a dramatically different account of Simmons’ activities in Southeast Asia. They say he was part of a network of criminal diversion of fuel intended to fight the enemy throughout Southeast Asia. Corruption in the supply of petroleum products was not a new problem. In January of 1969 the GAO reported that millions of gallons of fuel shipped to US military units in Thailand had been stolen. The GAO was unable to determine the full extent of the losses, but it reported to Congress that its inquiry and a parallel military investigation indicated that more than 5 million gallons of fuel had been stolen in 1967 alone. “Further unidentified thefts of fuel may have occurred and the full extent of losses is not known,” the GAO said in a report. Sen. William Proxmire, a Democrat from Wisconsin, who asked for the investigation, said it was “a shocking and tragic situation.” Investigators said government laxity in controlling the distribution of the fuels and in processing documents was partly to blame for the thievery, which “was perpetrated primarily by collusion and forgery.” The GAO also said that the thievery might have gone undetected even by “a more sophisticated system, properly implemented.” The thefts had been carried out by putting fictitious military units on delivery receipts and by using fictitious vehicle numbers, vehicle identification numbers of cars no longer in use, and delivery receipts showing excessive refilling. Other thefts were made from service stations that supplied fuel for American vehicles. When auditors of the GAO looked at Simmons’ records they concluded that there was an organized ring at work diverting Pentagon funds to private bank accounts. They reported their findings to the Justice Department. Simmons was unaware of the final report of the GAO, and by the beginning of 1975 he was optimistic about the

future. He thought he had been cleared of wrongdoing. His feeling of invulnerability was enhanced by the fact that he had become financially and politically well connected within South Vietnam. He married a young woman whose family owned real estate in Danang and Saigon, rubber plantations outside Saigon, beauty shops, banks and jewelry stores around the country, and a controlling interest in Air Vietnam, the South Vietnamese airline, and in a Saigon bank—the National Bank of Vietnam. The military situation in South Vietnam disintegrated rapidly in the spring of 1975. Simmons seemed to think that when the actual end of the Saigon regime came, he would gather his family and fly away and leave all of his difficulties behind. Simmons was in Hong Kong when the North Vietnamese Army began closing in on Saigon in April. But suddenly, out of nowhere, it seemed, on April 8, the Justice Department filed a civil action in Hong Kong, against Simmons, Pietro Marini, Richard Sakai, Tim Koon Hung Wong, Petroleum Management Consultants of Hong Kong and Wong’s International Trading. The action involved the theft of $4.4 million in Pentagon funds earmarked for the South Vietnamese military and diverted to Hong Kong. Andrew Davenport, reporting on the case for the Far Eastern Economic Review concluded first of all that it was “an extremely complicated affair.” Adding to the opaque nature of what had happened and what was going on, the case was heard privately in chambers in Hong Kong and so there was no public record of the proceedings for reporters. Davenport found also that the American consul in Hong Kong had strict instructions not to comment on the defendant. Tim Wong spoke to Davenport, and told him that the case was all about consignments of lubricating oil for the South Vietnamese Army that had been stolen before reaching its consignee. He knew only that oil had been ordered by Simmons and Sakai and their orders were placed through Marini who had once lived in Saigon but disappeared when the suit was filed. Marini left behind the address of “c/o Caltex Oil (Kenya), Mombasa.” A spokesman for Caltex said he’d never heard of Marini and to the best of his knowledge the man was not in Kenya. Marini was never seen again. Wong claimed not to know the ins and outs of what happened.Sakai and Simmons set up another company, Pan Asia Engineering Consultants, in “1973 or early 1974,” and that company had been legally registered in Hong Kong. Davenport found Simmons and described him as “young and bearded, and

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dressed in a tailored khaki suit.” Simmons said he was unable to comment on the case since it was in the hands of “his solicitors.” He would only confirm that he had been in Vietnam. The next day, like Marini, Simmons disappeared.

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Fraud Schematics Bruno Ristau of the Civil Fraud Division of the Justice Department explained to a reporter for the Associated Press that the fraud began in early 1974 after Simmons was given the power to authorize payments drawn on the US account at the National Bank of Vietnam. Ristau said he had evidence that Simmons was the prime mover among the conspirators in a system authorizing payments for products that were never delivered. The SimmonsSakai company in Hong Kong, Ristau said, was a “paper company.”

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On June 26, 1975, Simmons was arrested by state police, FBI agents and a deputy U.S. marshal at his parents’ home. They had tracked him 10,000 miles to the hills of West Virginia. The Justice Department was successful in freezing the bank accounts of the defendants and their companies until the case was adjudicated. But defendants Marini and Simmons were gone. The Justice Department said that Simmons purchased $500,000 in precious gems before leaving Hong Kong. The gems, they claimed, might serve as untraceable liquid capital for an international fugitive. Simmons took a commercial flight from Hong Kong to Saigon. He arranged for his wife and four children and four members of her extended family to depart from the besieged city on April 28 on a regularly scheduled commercial flight to Manila. From Manila they flew to Los Angeles and then on to Washington, D.C. In Washington, Simmons acquired a van to

drive the group to his parents’ home in Porterwood, W. Va. They moved into a mobile home on his father’s farm. By the time Simmons arrived in West Virginia, South Vietnam was no more. Saigon had become Ho Chi Minh City. The past was dead and buried, Simmons thought. Who cared about oil consignments in South Vietnam anymore? He had escaped and was safe and at home among friends and family in West Virginia. He spoke to a local reporter from an Elkins, W. Va., newspaper and discussed the government charges against him. He said he was confident and intimated he would return to Hong Kong to defend himself. “We feel we have the case whipped,” he said. He explained that all of the allegedly missing petroleum products had been paid for and delivered to the South Vietnamese Army and Air Force and only after that did they disappear. He said it had been very difficult to provide America’s allies in Southeast Asia with oil products after both the OPEC oil embargo and the restrictions on the use of fuels produced in the United States to support military operations. “I found a solution,” he said. “Not a very popular one, but it would ensure fuel to continue to flow.” Simmons went on to explain that in Southeast Asia “I put my neck on the line “ to secure petroleum products for America’s allies. Government money was often not available when payments fell due, he said. “I was in continuous default with the commercial suppliers.” Simmons said that he was not worried because he was worth more than the frozen assets in Hong Kong. Trying to explain how he’d become a wealthy man while working for the government, he said it came from his wife’s family. Simmons said that he planned to build a home for himself and his family in Parsons and take up permanent residence in West Virginia, even if it meant turning over “his Asian business” to others to operate. But he never got the chance. On June 26, 1975, Simmons was arrested by state police, FBI agents and a deputy U.S. marshal at his parents’ home. They had tracked him 10,000 miles to the hills of West Virginia. He was formally charged with conflict of interest for receiving money, illegally concealing receipt of that money, and 19 other federal crimes. He was remanded to the Randolph County jail in Elkins, W. Va. In Hong Kong, one of Simmons’ business partners cut a deal with the government, and provided evidence against Simmons. He testified that the company, Petroleum Management and Consultants, “never supplied nor intended to supply the products.” He also swore that the major portion of the misappropriated money had been turned over to Simmons. 24

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VIETNAM 22 The Justice Department concluded that Simmons personally received at least $1.2 million in the scam. He faced a maximum two year prison sentence and $10,000 fine on the conflict of interest charge and five years in prison and a $10,000 fine on the charge of concealing facts from the government. His bail was set at $300,000 and he was placed in the Randolph County jail to await trial. Simmons hired a local attorney, Delroy Harner, to represent him. He also flew his Hong Kong barrister, Gordon Hampton, to West Virginia to represent him in the case. But there was a cash flow shortage that he had not counted on. His visible assets were frozen and he could not afford to post bond. Simmons appeared before a federal magistrate on June 29 to request bail reduction. The magistrate denied the reduction, stating that Simmons had shown a “high degree of mobility, sophistication and physical capacity” to flee. Assistant US Attorney Steve Jory told the judge, “We believe he will leave the United States and draw upon his vast amount of assets,” if bond was lowered. Jory pointed out that the government believed that Simmons had $900,000 in personal frozen assets in a Hong Kong bank. Simmons offered to surrender his passport if the bond was reduced. Jory said that Simmons had two passports. Simmons responded that his willingness to stay in the United States was proven by the fact that he had not fled before his arrest at his parents’ home, despite his prior knowledge that charges would be filed. Simmons appeared before Federal Judge Robert Maxwell in U.S. District Court in Elkins one week later, again asking for bail reduction. This time he said his wife and family were having a difficult time because of their inability to read or speak English. Worlie Simmons, David’s father, offered to put up the 155-acre family farm as security for the release of his son. The farm was valued at between $80,000 and $100,000. Mawell said that if Simmons surrendered his passport and reported daily to an officer of the court he would grant bail. Simmons agreed. On Sept. 8, Simmons surprisingly waived a grand jury hearing. The waiver meant the Justice Department could present its case against him before Judge Maxwell in U.S. District Court within three to 14 days. One week later Simmons appeared before the judge and pleaded guilty to one of the 21 charges against him. He admitted to the judge that he had siphoned off $4.3 million in a kickback scheme he’d put together while acting as a purchasing agent for the South Vietnamese armed forces. Half of the money was immediately converted into condominiums, jewelry and cars. As part of a plea bargain, Simmons acknowledged that he was the mastermind behind the misappropriation of funds and agreed to begin restitution of the money

by turning over the “cash, jewels, fancy cars, and condominiums he had stashed away in Hong Kong.” He also agreed to the confiscation of all of the remaining funds in his Hong Kong bank accounts. Simmons assigned to the government the loans due to him through a finance company he’d established in Hong Kong. Those assets were estimated at $417,000 in secured loans and $750,000 in unsecured loans. Assured that the Justice Department would get all of Simmons’ assets, Judge Maxwell handed down the maximum penalty for the single crime—a five-year prison term and a $10,000 fine. The judge recommended that Simmons serve his term in a minimum security federal prison.

Crime & Punishment A local reporter, Strat Douthat,, watched the proceedings and tried to put them in a tragic historical context. Everyone in the area, he wrote, remembered the day in 1960 when Simmons, “a fuzzy cheeked farm boy of 17,” joined the Army “and went off to seek his fortune.” When he came home in May 1975, Douthat wrote, “he had acquired a Vietnamese wife, four children and approximately $3 million.” The way Simmons had won and lost his fortune, Douthat said, “provides a revealing glimpse of at least one way in which U.S. tax dollars were spent during this country’s involvement in Vietnam.” Simmons remembers bitterly the rumors that circulated about him in the local press. “They said I was stealing fuel and selling it to the communists,” he said, “and because of things like that we lost the war. It was all my fault. And there I was sitting in a jail cell not being able to say a word to anybody except my attorney.” Lt. Col. William E. LeGro, who worked with Simmons in the DAO, says that although Simmons did not alone provide much of the cause for the collapse, he was surely not blameless. But Simmons saw himself as the most convenient scapegoat—and in time, the only scapegoat. He says that the U.S. attorney’s office offered him a deal. He could plead guilty to a conflict of interest and concealment of a material fact. He decided to accept the deal, he says, not because he was guilty but because of a visit to his cell by a member of the U.S. Military investigations team who warned him that if he did not take the deal or if he revealed the top secret scheme to coerce OPEC into selling petroleum products, he would never see his family again. “The inference was that they would be harmed in some way,” he says. “The penalty for the crime might be as high as five years in prison but the prosecutor suggested I might serve as little as 18 months before my release.” Charges of fraud and

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embezzlement would be dismissed if he pled guilty to the lesser charge. So he copped the plea. While he was in prison the IRS sent him a $3 million bill for unpaid taxes and penalties, based upon the amount of money he was said to have embezzled from oil contracts. They eventually settled, he says, for the entire content of his commissary account—$3. U.S. Attorney Jory spoke with reporters after the sentencing and said that the government now had a better picture than before of the scope and extent of black market and other illegal activities involving US funds in South Vietnam. The problem, of course, was that South Vietnam no longer existed and only the local West Virginia press had any interest at all in what Jory had to say. No major metropolitan newspaper carried a story on Simmons after his indictment. The New York Times ran one item on the case after the Hong Kong filing by the Justice Department. John Chancellor of NBC Nightly News read a 15-second item on the indictment of Simmons but there were no other stories on the trial or its outcome outside West Virginia. “I doubt this is an isolated case,” Jory said of American corruption in South Vietnam. But nobody was listening. Simmons said to local reports that he would tell “his side of the story” following the sentencing. But he never told anyone about his experience until I found him in his restaurant. David Simmons was the only American

to be tried, convicted and imprisoned for crimes committed in South Vietnam in the last year of that nation’s existence. Simmons spent 39 months in prison for malfeasance. Lt. William Calley, convicted of 55 murders in the village of My Lai in the spring of 1968, spent four and a half months in prison for his crimes. Calley won public support during his trial, including that of Gov. Jimmy Carter of Georgia and Gov. George Wallace of Alabama. A 1971 poll indicated that 79 percent of Americans disagreed with the Calley verdict. There was no widespread support for David Simmons. No governor came forward to express sympathy for him and no major newspaper or news network followed his trial. Simmons had become something like the Vietnam War itself: yesterday’s news that was best forgotten. Following his release from prison Simmons joined his family in Southern California. He worked in his restaurant with his wife and sent his children to college and tried to forget everything that happened to him in South Vietnam. Larry Engelmann is the author of six nonfiction books including ‘Tears Before the Rain: An Oral History of the Fall of South Vietnam.’ He lives in San Jose, and is currently writing a book titled ‘Our Share of Night,’ on the Snoozy/Furlong/ Bilek/Mallicoat serial murders in San Jose in 1969–71.

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ENERALLY SPEAKING, high turnover in toptier restaurant kitchens is not a good thing for the dining public. True, chefs are an especially peripatetic lot and typically jump from job to job to develop their skills and gain exposure to a variety of cuisines and restaurants, but the revolving door of chefs at a particular restaurant can also be an indication that the restaurant is poorly managed, that management can’t retain quality employees or that there are difficult personalities at play. Or all of the above. All the changes and false starts can result in inconsistent food. In the case of Mountain View’s Chez TJ, there have been four chefs in the past ďŹ ve years. That’s a lot. Yet through all the personnel changes, the food has remained consistently excellent. I can’t say what factors were at play in all the turnover, but I do know that owner George Aviet is seeing stars, Michelin stars, that is. Chef Christopher Kostow put Chez TJ on the map, earning the restaurant two Michelin stars back in 2007 but departed soon thereafter for Meadowood in Napa Valley. Next up was Bruno Chemel,

a talented chef who nonetheless failed to wow the Michelin inspectors and earned only one star. He and Aviet parted ways last year in what was reported to be a rather high-drama affair surrounding his failure to score a second pentagram. When Chemel left, most of the kitchen staff departed with him; he opened his own restaurant, Baume, in Palo Alto this past December. Enter chef Scott Nishiyama, who walked through Chez TJ’s door three months ago. Like Chemel before him, he is expected to earn a second star. Nishiyama brings an impressive rĂŠsumĂŠ. A graduate of the Culinary Institute of America, he has worked at Daniel Boulud’s restaurant Daniel in New York City and Daniel Boulud Brasserie in Las Vegas. He then moved to Yountville’s famed French Laundry and later Yoshi’s in San Francisco. I have eaten at Chez TJ under Kostow, Chemel and now Nishiyama. Nishiyama’s cooking strikes me as the most accessible of the three. Where Kostow was wildly inventive and Chemel the skilled technician, Nishiyama is the conďŹ dent minimalist. His dishes and presentations are no doubt the result of great labor behind the scenes, but on the plate they

display an understated elegance and simplicity—a perfectly seared cube of ďŹ sh sharing the plate with a few dots of sauce and squares of gnocchi, a frothy soup accented with just a hint of black truffle and some ruffled leaves of roasted Savoy cabbage. He dabbles in molecular gastronomy here and there, but for the most part, his cooking doesn’t rely on science lab tricks. He just cooks. Really well. Like his predecessors, Nishiyama creates menus that consist of a fourcourse menu gastronomique ($85) and an eight-course tasting menu ($120.) The tasting menu is the best way to appreciate Nishiyama’s cooking, because you get to taste your way through a greater arc of avors and ingredients. He hooked me right away with the veloutĂŠ of golden turnip and pear soup, a creamy, wonderfully rich soup poured over a few bits of crisp veal sweetbread and Savoy cabbage. I loved it and couldn’t wait for what was next. What came next was probably the showiest dish on the menu, a frozen torchon of foie gras shaved at the table into a snowy dust over a bowl of chewy, bananaavored gelatin, cubed and crunchy Jerusalem artichoke and purĂŠed

cashews. The banana/foie gras combination was an unexpected one, but at-out delicious. As the foie gras warms up, it melts and matches the consistency of the banana confection and the cashew butter. It’s fantastic. My other favorite dish was the grilled Japanese octopus. I love octopus, but too often it is served rubbery. Not here. The beautiful nubs of octopus are juicy and tender, and the smoky bits of char are a perfect match for the meaty cephalopod. The octopus shares the plate with an impossibly light and crisp little pillow of pan-crisped gnocchi, the silken deliciousness of bone marrow and the balancing acidity of sorrel leaves and stems. It’s a masterful plate of food in both execution and presentation. And so it went into the more substantial ďŹ sh, duck and beef dishes with nary a false step. The Liberty Farms roasted duck breast was particularly good—the skin fatty and crisp, and the meat tender and juicy. The duck was matched with dates and a honeylike coffee jus. As with Nishiyama’s other dishes, the combinations really take his food to another level. ((

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Desserts are very good, particularly the chocolate ones. From the four-course menu, I loved the trio of chocolate pavĂŠ, chocolate pot de crème and thick coconut ice cream. On the tasting menu, “chocolate, mint and teaâ€? consisted of mint ganache, spheres of malted milk and Thai ice tea–avored ice cream. There are only a few Silicon Valley restaurants willing to break out of the crème brĂťlĂŠe and molten chocolate cake dessert doldrums. Chez TJ does. Deliciously.

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The duck was matched with dates and a honeylike coffee jus. As with Nishiyama’s other dishes, the combinations really take his food to another level. Service at Chez TJ has always lagged a few steps behind the talent in the kitchen, and that’s still the case, but the gap is closing. The servers’ descriptions of the food as each course is delivered can feel rote or strained, as if they didn’t fully memorize what all the ingredients were and must recall their notes. I don’t know if it’s the kitchen’s or the servers’ fault, but the timing of the courses can be a little erratic, too. Some come in close succession, while others take longer. But through it all, the service is crisp and attentive. Sommelier Susan Chowla is a great addition to the restaurant. Her wine pairings are creative and unexpected. I loved the razor-edged acidity of the 2008 Urki Getariako Txakolina with the grilled octopus and the smoky, earthy 2008 Manu Pinot Noir from Malborough, New Zealand, with the duck. It’s a superb combination; Chowla’s unpretentious approach to wine is refreshing. Say what you will about Aviet’s ďŹ xation on multiple stars, through all the comings and goings, the chefs at his restaurant are consistently excellent. Will Nishiyama earn two Michelin stars? I don’t know, and I don’t care. All I know is that Chez TJ has yet another talented chef behind the stove. Enjoy him while he lasts, however long that may be.

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I fell into it 15 years ago. I took over the wine list at La Pastaia. It was kind of a special project because it was completely Italian. In this valley, everyone was looking for Californian and local wines, and I had the opportunity to do something different. With Italian wine, there is so much to learn. There are 1,000 different grape varietals. It was a challenge at ďŹ rst, but then it caught ďŹ re, and we became one of the only ones in this area that had an all-Italian wine list. What makes your wine list special?

At La Pastaia, it’s all Italian imports. At the Hedley Club (inside the Hotel De Anza), it’s a more eclectic list. We try to get more local wineries and Napa wineries—and pick a little from France because we get a lot of travelers coming in. If you combine them both, we have almost 50 wines. People can choose from both lists, no matter where they are. It really is an international list. It’s a great place to just go wine tasting and experiment. What wines are you passionate about right now?

Rome isn’t known for their wine growing. They do simple white—frascati—but there’s a new project there called Casale del Giglio, and they’re doing some interesting things. [Also] syrah has been the one grape that has really fallen off the map. The pinot craze that went on pushed syrah aside. I think for people who really want a little more depth of fruit and a little more weight, syrah should really become the next grape to stand out, especially locally. The syrahs that are made here are fantastic wines. Otherwise, I like the whites from Trentino, and I like nebbiolo from Piedmonte. What are some of the best wine values now?

Sicily always has good values, and so does Puglia. Those are always good standbys. Aside from the collector’s market, which always stays kind of heavy in the high end, there’s more value in the mid-to-lower range; wines that used to be $20 a bottle are now $15 and $12. What is your go-to wine for everyday, casual drinking?

I have a preference for pinot nero. It’s the same grape as pinot noir. We have one from Jermann that we pour by the glass. It’s from Friuli. I think they grow a lighter style of pinot. It’s really fragrant and perfumed, more owery than fruit driven. And I like that just for drinking. It’s really good with food, too, with a slight earthiness.

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E NEED more colloquial translations and considerations of the classics. Dr. Sarah Ruden shows the way in Paul Among the People: The Apostle Reinterpreted and Reimagined in His Own Time. She calls it a “new kind of book”—a multidisciplinary study. Since Shaw first attacked him, St. Paul has been considered a vicious muddier of Jesus’ message of love by sophisticated Christians. By coincidence, Ruden’s book comes out in competition with a new St. Paul study from Pope Benedict. Benedict is “a profound spiritual leader in his own right” notes the pontiff ’s publicist, in case we were wondering. Ruden’s book is a defense, and not from a fundamentalist view. Her discovery of St. Paul’s elevated side was, she writes, the last benefit she expected to get from her classical education. As an academic and a poet, Ruden had previously studied Virgil and Petronious, largely because most female classics students gravitated toward Ovid. Her experience shows; her prose is salty and martial. Yet Ruden is a Quaker, a member of a fairly pure set of Christians. Foreswearing violence is tough. As

one ages, the desire for sin wanes, except for the desire to beat your enemies into a pulp. Ruden notes that Paul saw past rage: “If I had been one of Paul’s typical readers . . . I would have picked up that treating another human being as a thing was no longer OK.” Such is the colloquial way that Ruden writes. She also translates a line of Horace’s Second Satire as “these guys know what they’re doing.” (“This they do judiciously” is another translation.) Ruden, who claims that the ancients were “kindergarteners with knives,” uses some seriously informal prose. The limits of a pejorative point of view are obvious, though. What Ruden has against the Greeks and the Romans is inarguable: they victimized the weak, and she can cite her considerable readings to prove it. Unfortunately, our fantasies of the nonstop toga party turn out to have been more like evenings in San Quentin, with similar harshly delineated roles of pitcher and catcher. And if Roman society labeled you as Mike Piazza instead of Randy Johnson, only God—Paul’s God—could help you. Pedophilia was a joking matter. The joke was on the punked, and the shame outlived you.

In coming out against homosexuality, Ruden argues, Paul was condemning what he knew, namely the exploitative kind—slave raping, underling sodomizing. Adultery ruined women socially and took away their property. Caught in the act, an adulterous man could be dealt with summarily. How summarily? Amy Richlin’s excellent The Garden of Priapus, cited by Ruden, reminds us that Roman houses carried signage something like the novelty ones joke shops used to sell: “Trespassers will be violated.” So, in Paul’s objection to homosexuality and adultery, Ruden sees an objection to objectification itself. We can see what the Romans and Greeks laughed at, but writers —however ancient—telling us that something is unthinkable is usually a good sign that somebody thinks it. I thought of Hemingway’s objection to male homosexuality: it just had to be beastly because of the physical way it’s carried out, QED. While Ruden makes a fine argument that Paul helped create the ideas of fraternity and equality, obviously there’s no liberty there, unless you think of liberty meaning liberation from base

desires. I’m too pagan to appreciate that idea. Ruden spares some condemnation for Rev. Wildmon and his gang, but I wish she had acknowledged that there was a part of Paul that was revolutionary then but is reactionary now. She almost does, but the point is nearly parenthetical; she blames churchmen, not the texts that inspired them. The end results of religious authoritarianism are seen everywhere today, particularly in Pope Benedict’s scandal-ridden papacy. Yet anyone defending Paul has 1 Corinthians as a gift. Ruden presents that book’s most shining passage just as the Greeks would have seen it: a series of verbs in a box of text, without spaces or punctuation, like a word puzzle. This forceful summing up of faith, hope and charity, and the importance of possessing it in the heart instead of the tongue, almost outweighs the wrongs done by good Christians over the centuries. PAUL AMONG THE PEOPLE: THE APOSTLE REINTERPRETED AND REIMAGINED IN HIS OWN TIME by Sarah Ruden; Pantheon; 240 pages; $25 hardback

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STIMATES of the butcher’s bill disagree: the Taiping rebellion of the mid-1800s killed 20 or maybe 50 million humans. Clearly, it was Earth’s bloodiest civil war. Without delving into the history too much—I’m a non-Chinese speaker sorting through drastically partisan summings up—a couple of things can be judged. Firstly, in the golden hindsight of Mao and the Party, the rebellion was proto-communist, since the rebels held property in common and came out against polygamy and foot binding. “Perhaps the next uprising in Europe may depend more on what is now taking place in the Celestial Empire [China] than any other existing political cause,” wrote Karl Marx at the time. As in the later Boxer Rebellion, the rebellion opposed the colonizing attempts of the West. Secondly, Hong Xiuquan, the rebellion’s leader, may have been of dubious sanity, since he was subject to prophetic dreams in which God told him that he, Hong, was Jesus’ little brother. Beware the divinely inspired when they have guns. Making a film about a civil war, Chinese or otherwise, is always tricky: what half the audience will consider heroism, the other half will call base treachery. Gone With the Wind is the exception that proves Thalberg’s Law: No Civil War picture ever made a dime. Peter

Chan’s The Warlords, a sumptuously produced yet gritty war movie, might also be an exception. It’s a rousing martial drama of the brotherhood of three generals and the woman who became the wedge between them. Left for dead after a four-day battle, the Imperial Gen. Pang (Jet Li) survives by playing possum in a burnt-out city. A lone woman, Lian (Xu Jinglei), rescues, feeds and beds the traumatized Pang. Lian had just run away from the man in her life, a bandit chieftain named Zhao Erhu (Andy Lau). In the morning after this one-night encounter, Pang and Lian meet the bandit’s party. Zhao never learns about the stolen night of love; he intends to send Pang on his way. That’s when a different division of the Imperial army shows up, led by Pang’s evil rival, who sat out the battle as Pang’s men were cut to pieces. This marauding general raids the bandit’s camp. These well-staged sequences bring out The Warlord’s Goya side: the torment of the civilians is well observed with crane shots of evilly glittering rifles, like jackstraws, jabbed into the necks of an undulating crowd. After the thieving soldiers withdraw, Pang urges the bandits to join the emperor’s army as a way of surviving the times. Pang, the bandit Zhao and the film’s narrator, Zhang (Takeshi Kaneshiro of Red Cliff), join in a three-way oath to fight together as brothers. They seal this oath with

the murder of some hostages: blood in, blood out. The battles continue the film’s postapocalyptic look—it’s a gritty modern war with trenches. There’s more hit-and-run action in the early sequences, as Pang, Zhang and Zhao’s militia falls on a Taiping supply convoy filing through the canyons: bear traps snatch their horses’ legs, and the fighters slide down from the cliff tops to finish the slaughter. A later battle outside the gates of Shu City plays out as a more ghastly version of the Charge of the Light Brigade, with foot soldiers throwing themselves into the line of gunfire to buy time for the archers behind them. Success changes everything: Pang grows more ruthless, more of a cold-blooded politician, even as Zhao’s own populist side broadens. Meanwhile, conniving do-nothing mandarins at the Imperial court wait to see which way the chips will fall. The Warlords isn’t quite bursting with comedy, but there is some dark humor in the staging of Pang’s meetings with the civil authorities. Pang and the throne’s servants negotiate at shouting distance across the city’s concrete courtyard, like neighbors yelling at each other across a street. We get a taste of the martial arts that made Jet Li famous, as during the scrimmage at Shu City: the general, impaled with a pike, lets his attacker force the pole through his

body so he can lure the sucker into slicing range. Surely, this is the most grisly-cool moment since Shirley MacLaine taught Clint Eastwood the proper way to remove an arrow in Don Siegel’s Two Mules for Sister Sara. Li tops it by hurling opponents hard enough to knock a line of cannons off their caissons. The digitally enhanced stunts with Li are essential to the film’s appeal, but it’s strange that director Peter Chan didn’t show us the story from the point of view of the bandit Zhao: in trusting the authorities, he risks the most and has the most to lose; he goes noble as his well-born rival goes ignoble. The Warlords is directed with admirable momentum, intelligence and minimal borrowing from Kurosawa. The hyperkinetic and realistic sides of war are balanced, as are the glory and the shame. The sense of the busted trust between generals reminds one of something director Claude Autant-Lara once wrote. In movies, he suggested, “the ‘comradery of war’ is presented with incomparable deceit as a ‘brotherhood’ . . . a false brotherhood . . . that I challenge absolutely, having some true sense of brotherhood, of its nature and of its ends.” THE WARLORDS (R; 110 min.), directed by Peter Chan, written by Chun Tin Nam, et al., photographed by Arthur Wong and starring Jet Li and Andy Lau, opens April 9 at Camera 3 in San Jose.

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New After.Life (R) A horror thriller about the gray zone between life and death, with Liam Neeson, Justin Long and Christina Ricci. (Opens Apr 9 at Century Capitol 16 in San Jose.)

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Black Shirt Diaries ‘Vincere’ unearths Mussolini’s earliest victim in operatic excess

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HEN YOU get into bed with a fascist, don’t be surprised if he steals all the covers. Vincere is the story of one of Benito Mussolini’s earliest victims: Ida Dalser (the lovely, monotonous Giovanna Mezzogiorno), a beautician who sacriďŹ ced everything for the rising politician (Filippo Timi). It’s thought that Dalser married Il Duce, and there’s evidence he acknowledged their child. After World War I, Mussolini remarried, and the luckless Dalser became a state secret. She was interned at a series of mental hospitals, and her son, also named Benito, was spirited away to captivity at a grim boy’s school. Director Marco Bellocchio focuses on Dalser’s side of the story: she’s swept away by the young street ďŹ ghting man, who still had hair and a mustache. Before World War I, Mussolini is an editor, a lightning rod challenging God to strike him dead. Ida surrenders utterly: it’s a submission maybe not seen since In the Realm of the Senses. She sells her possessions and waits for him to arrive, nude. Later, locked away in various madhouses, Ida can only watch him in newsreels, in dark rooms with hand-operated projectors and smoking carbonarc lamps. There is Mussolini as we remember him: a beady-eyed, shaved gorilla in a wing collar, an aping, clowning thug, in one of history’s funniest hats. Was he, then, cinema itself? A seductive deception, no deeper than a screen? What he is in the ďŹ lm is a traitor to a woman who loves him, and a sellout to his principles: yesterday’s atheist sweetening up the pope and the king, both of whom he had once promised to kill. Turbulent music heightens the operatic side of the story: Carlo Crivelli’s score sounds like Philip Glass and Bernard Herrmann having a ďŹ stďŹ ght while going over a waterfall. More turbulence: giant capital letters march across the screen, as does appropriated footage, including Chaplin’s The Kid. When you’re watching the story of a man and a woman who have separate and opposed obsessions, it’s difďŹ cult not to want to follow the story of the one who has the most interesting obsession. I must have been seduced by fascinating fascism myself, because I have to ask what is more compelling to watch: world domination or continued mourning for a kidnapped child? For most of the ďŹ lm, Ida does two things. She writes letters, and she watches movies. When he’s grown, her son, Benito Albino Mussolini (also played by Timi), does imitations of his famous father to amuse his fellow students. (Good imitations, but John Lithgow in Buckaroo Banzai was better.) The urgency of Vincere (“to winâ€?) is apparent. Some elements in Italy are trying to rehab the memory of the Man Who Made the Trains Run on Time. In the Brecht phrase, the bitch that bore him is in heat again. Locked up with Mezzogiorno’s occasionally interminable suffering, we’re left with another question: Whatever happened to Italian cinema? Images here remind us of the loss: the huge, arched madhouse window like the one in the jail in General Della Rovere, an untidy garden that reminds one of the Finzi-Continis’ estate, the capering madwomen escaped from Fellini . . . all these signal an Italian cinema that is, like Ida, looking backward instead of forward. Richard von Busack VINCERE (Unrated; 118 min.), directed Marco Bellocchio, written by Bellocchio and Daniela Ceselli, photographed by Daniele Cipri and starring Giovanna Mezzogiorno, opens April 9 at Camera 3 in San Jose. (Read reviews on MovieTimes.com.)

The Black Waters of Echo’s Pond (R) A group of friends uncover their darkest and most troubling desires and behaviors during a trip to a private island in a horror ďŹ lm by Gabriel Bologna. Stars Robert Patrick, Sean Lawlor and Danielle Harris. (Opens Apr 9 at Camera 12 and Century Capitol 16 in San Jose.) City Island (PG-13; 100 min.) A comedy with dramatic overtones about a dysfunctional family, with Julianna Margulies, Andy Garcia and Emily Mortimer. (Opens Apr 9 at Aquarius in Palo Alto.) Date Night (PG-13; 88 min.) Steve Carell and Tina Fey’s night out turns into a comic disaster. Also stars Mark Wahlbert and William Fichtner. (Opens Apr 9.)

The Greatest (R; 100 min.) Indie director Shana Feste’s dire mawkfest is the direct result of what happens when screenwriting teachers inform their students that Ordinary People is a classic. After a tragic automobile accident, a wealthy math professor, Allen (Pierce Brosnan), and his wife, Grace (Susan Sarandon), have to cope with not just the loss of their son but also the arrival in their life of a kooky girl, Rose, whom their son impregnated on the night he was killed. Carey Mulligan (An Education) plays the girl in question. Despite being a scholarship student headed for Barnard, she’s considered a little too common for the griefed-out mom. And so Grace continues to reject her unborn grandchild, despite her husband’s efforts. Brosnan tries hard but can get no purchase on the soapy material; it’s a royal wallow for Sarandon. The rest of the sequences don’t have any pulse either: neither the wacky party (directors used to have a nude girl livening the scene up; this time it’s a nude guy) nor the beginning of a group-therapy romance for the slightly-misbehaving brother, Ryan (Johnny Simmons, in the Timothy Hutton part). (Opens Apr 9 at Camera 7 in Campbell.) (RvB) La Mission (U.S.; 117 min.) Benjamin Bratt (TV’s Law and Order, Miss Congeniality) recently received a Maverick Spirit Award at Cinequest for this ďŹ lm about a man in crisis, directed by his

brother Peter Bratt (of Follow Me Home). Bratt plays Che, an ex-con recovering alcoholic in San Francisco’s Mission District dealing with his drinking problem and working for Muni. The discovery Che makes about the secret life of his son, Jess (Jeremy Ray Valdez), brings him to the crisis point. Co-stars Talisa Soto Bratt, who was in the James Bond movie The Living Daylights. The ďŹ lm receives a special advance screening sponsored by Metro before its ofďŹ cial Apr 16 opening. (Plays Apr 14 at 8pm at Camera 12 in San Jose; go to www.metroactive.com/giveaways for a chance to win tickets to the screening.) (RvB) Letters to God (PG; 110 min.) A family drama about the power of faith. (Opens Apr 9.) Reclaiming Our Heritage The African American Faculty and Staff Assoc. at SJSU presents a screening of Ethni Notions, a documentary by Marlon Riggs about anti-black prejudice through American history. (Plays Apr 8, 6pm, at King Library, Room #525, San Jose.) Vincere (Unrated; 118 min.) See review at left. (Opens Apr 9 at Camera 3 in San Jose.) The Warlords (R; 110 min.) See review on page 45. (Opens Apr 9 at Camera 3 in San Jose.)

Revivals Dodsworth/Make Way for Tomorrow (1936/1937) Walter Huston plays a retired automobile manufacturer taking his wife (Ruth Chatterton) to Europe in Bosworth. The sophisticates abroad turn the wife’s pretty head, and the estranged husband seeks solace from a widowed expatriate (Mary Astor, who later called this her favorite role). William Wyler directs, from a novel by Sinclair Lewis. BILLED WITH Make Way for Tomorrow. An old Yiddish proverb: a father can support ďŹ ve children, but ďŹ ve children can’t support one father. In Leo McCarty’s devastating drama, it’s both a mother and a father (Victor Moore and Beulah Bond) who have their home foreclosed—and can’t ďŹ nd a new lodging among their children. It’s reportedly the inspiration for Ozu’s Tokyo Story. Despite the camouage of the optimistic title and an ad campaign capitalizing on the actress Barbara Read, who had been in the hit Three Smart Girls, it was not a hit. It has, however, become a cult movie, though, partially because of the energetic championing of the ďŹ lm by Andrew Sarris, partially because of home viewing. As in the case of McCarty’s Love Story and its remake, An Affair to Remember, people can really go to pieces weeping at home, without fear of being rebuked for it. (“Make Way for Tomorrow would make a stone weep,â€? Orson Welles said.) No one, we trust, rebukes you at the Stanford Theatre. (Plays Apr 7-9 in Palo Alto at the Stanford Theatre.) (RvB) The Naked Gun/Airplane! (1980) From the days when the ZAZ brothers were funny and David Zucker hadn’t yet embarrassed himself halfway to Patagonia with An American Carol. Frank Drebin (the imperturbable Leslie Nielsen) is a Quinn Martin–style L.A. cop who shoots ďŹ rst and asks questions later. (“Wilma, I promise you; whatever scum did this, not one man on this force will rest one minute until he’s behind bars. Now, let’s grab a bite to eat.â€?) BILLED WITH Airplane! An inspired, 1,000-joke burlesque of a bunch of doomed-ight movies, from the Airport series to less-well-remembered white-knucklers like Zero Hour and Fate Is the Hunter. Airplane! spawned a litter of terrible satires (many done by its directors), but this original has Robert Stack, the late Peter Graves and Nielsen parodying the strong-jawed characters that previously made their fortunes. Everyone has a favorite joke in this one: mine is the parody of Helen Reddy’s singing-nun bit in Airport 1975, with an actual Peter, Paul and Mary song used to make matters worse. (Plays Apr 9-11 in San Jose at the Retro Dome, 1694 Saratoga Ave.) (RvB) Niles Film Museum Regularly scheduled programs of silent movies. Apr 10: Easy Street (1917) with Charlie Chaplin and Edna Purviance; Remember When? (1925)

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Arabesque insults and swishing around a scimitar, while Dorothy Lamour—the Heather Graham of her day—swans about in a harem outfit. BILLED WITH The Ghost Breakers. Before there were the Ghostbusters—Hope and Paulette Goddard on their way to a haunted Cuban mansion, full of characters (Paul Lukas; the eye-rolling African American comedian Willie “Sleep ‘n’ Eat” Best. (Plays Apr 14-16 in Palo Alto at the Stanford Theatre.) (RvB) The Talk of the Town/Adam’s Rib (Both 1949) Running from the law, a wanted labor organizer (Cary Grant) connects with a law professor (Ronald Colman); the two match wits and contend for the attention of teacher

Jean Arthur. Very choice comedy drama in which the letter and the spirit of the law come into conflict. BILLED WITH Adam’s Rib. In a touching opening without dialogue on the streets of New York, Judy Holliday (debuting) shoots her straying husband. The fate of this would-be murderess is determined by a husband and wife: a prosecutor (Spencer Tracy) and a public defender (Katharine Hepburn). On one level, the film is a debate between male justice and female mercy, with Tracy arguing for equal punishment under the law and Hepburn making some ringing arguments against male privilege. George Cukor directs with the wit of a courtier and the curiosity of a scientist. He uses novel techniques—such as a long scene of an empty stage, with the voices of the stars on opposite sides out of camera range—to help the audience imagine the tender feelings between the husband and wife. Other moments suggest the still simmering passion between them as they become excited by their duels in the courtroom. Like industrial spies, filmmakers have been trying to copy the Cukor/Kanin/Gordon formula ever since. It seems to have died with its inventors. (Plays Apr 10-13 in Palo Alto at the Stanford Theatre.) (RvB) Windrider Bay Area Film Forum A local branch of the Windrider Forum at Sundance Film Festival, dedicated to exploring progressive spirituality and social justice in films. The power behind it all is the multidenominational Fuller Theological Seminary (with many branches including one in Menlo Park). Films include: Sympathy for Delicious, Mark Ruffalo’s directorial debut in a story of a promising Los Angeles DJ who becomes paralyzed and embittered—until he’s redeemed by a priest (Ruffalo). Ruffalo will be on hand. The opening documentary After the Storm concerns a group of actors coming to the rescue of Katrina sufferers. John Hindman’s The Answer Man has Jeff Daniels as a renowned pop theologian who has secret doubts; Lauren Graham and Nora Dunn co-star. Special guest: Ralph Winter (producer of the X-Men series and Star Trek 3-6). (Plays Apr 8-10 in Menlo Park at the Menlo-Atherton Performing Arts Center; www. windriderbayarea.org.) (RvB)

Reviews Chloe (R; 96 min.) Doubting the fidelity of her husband (Liam Neeson), a Toronto gynecologist (Julianne Moore) hires an expensive prostitute (Amanda Seyfried) to find out just how virtuous he is. Titillating movies are fair game for critics, but Atom Egoyan’s remake of 2003’s Nathalie ... by Anne Fontaine (Coco Before Chanel) is honestly seductive and sports acting way above the demands of erotica. Egoyan celebrates both the golden side and the brassy side of Seyfried, the glow and the calculation; here is Florentine beauty and a bit of Warner Bros. 1933. Egoyan lets Seyfried go large in the last scenes, and the young actress is up to it. Moreover, the movie gives Moore something to sink her fine teeth into. Expect a little starchy condemnation of Chloe as a male fantasy—though perhaps there are a few women who could handle the trysting here. (RvB) Clash of the Titans (PG-13, 118 min.) Sam Worthington’s Perseus saves Argos from a large and angry Kraken. A synthespian made completely out of Black

M E T R O S I L I C O N VA L L E Y APRIL 7-13, 2010 FILM Angus beef, Worthington demonstrates his ability to suck every touch of humor in a movie, so that no matter how ridiculous things get no one laughs during his scenes. He passed on the risible coiffures endemic in director Louis Leterrier’s vision of the ancient world, the land of a thousand fright wigs. Hairiest of them all is Liam Neeson’s Zeus, in shiny tinfoil armor last seen in Excalibur—a glittering 3-D eyesore like a icker postcard. This glowing apparition stares down his evil brother, Hades (Ralph Fiennes): nothing says “tensionâ€? like two furry, heavily mascaraed men giving each other the eye. Your kid will agree that any movie with Medusa in it can’t be a total loss. Her backstory is told by Perseus’ guardian angel Io (Gemma Arterton); Arterton provides not only the movie’s too-rare girly-action, but the one nod to the pathos of Ovid. (RvB) Diary of a Wimpy Kid (PG; 120 min.) A live-action adaptation of the graphic novel by Jeff Kinney about life in middle school. Stars Zachary Gordon. The Ghost Writer (PG-13, 128 min.) Roman Polanski’s freezerburned comedy/thriller concerns former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, excuse me, Adam Lang (Pierce Brosnan), who has settled in a ghoulish modernist bunker of a seaside house to ďŹ nish up his memoirs. The witty script has it that the PM got a $10 million advance for an absolutely unpublishable book. Enter a hired writer named the Ghost (Ewan McGregor). Meanwhile, the PM’s sexy shrew of a wife, Ruth (Olivia Williams), noses out her husband’s affair with his assistant (Kim Cattrall). One admires how much Polanski got out of two TV hobgoblins like Cattrall and Jim Belushi, as a swinish publisher who conducts himself like Lex Luthor. The surprise in this plot is revealed through some expertly played Boston Brahmin threat by Tom Wilkinson. Yet The Ghost Writer is a typical old director’s movie: slow, morbid, never quite sexy enough and full of self-reference. Trapping us in the house is a classic maneuver of Polanski; leaving us there is something like an act of forgetfulness. (RvB) Greenberg (R; 107 min.) Writer/director Noah Baumbach (The Squid and the Whale) is back after a threeyear hiatus with another character study. A dysfunctional, emotionally unbalanced 40something in full-on midlife crisis, Greenberg (Ben Stiller), to be blunt, is an asshole. He makes the nearly two hours we spend with him an unpleasant, disquieting experience, but Baumbach wouldn’t have it any other way. Roger Greenberg, a one-time musician down on his luck, arrives in Los Angeles from New York City after a six-week stay in a mental institution. He plans to housesit for his more successful brother, Phillip (Chris Messina), and Phillip’s wife, Carol (Susan Traylor), while they go on vacation. Greenberg runs into the recently divorced Beth (Jennifer Jason Leigh), an old girl friend. While Greenberg tries to reconnect with a distant Beth, he strikes up a halting, hesitant relationship with his brother’s personal assistant, Florence Marr (Greta Gerwig). Baumbach fails to make Greenberg anything except an unpleasant, unlikeable character. (MV) Hot Tub Time Machine (R; 100 min.) Sublime, but not dainty. Due to a wormhole, observed by a hot tub repairman or a Time Lord or something (Chevy Chase), three idiots (Craig Robinson, Rob Corddry and the ever soulful John Cusack) are transported back to their happier past at a ski resort in 1986. Accidentally transported with them is 24-year-old Jacob (the hilarious Clark Duke), a depressed middle-aged-man-in-training whose life may depend on the events of the night to come. Certainly the funniest and grimiest ďŹ lm since The Hangover, but Hot Tub Time Machine’s editing is ruthless, almost to the point of resembling a coming-attractions reel. Rather than looking like a frenzied mess, however, it is more like there was some brilliant four-hour version that was cut down to a ragged but right shape. Director Steve Pink scripted High Fidelity; Cusack and Corddry do things here that you will still be laughing about 10 years from now: examples being Corddry’s violent unplugging of himself from a hospital

bed or Cusack’s monologue about the day life went wrong for him, a tale as funny as the story in Gremlins about the Santa who ruined Christmas. (RvB) The Runaways (R; 105 min.). The scene that sticks in the memory is Dakota Fanning’s Cherie Currie dancing, sort of, at a high school talent show to David Bowie’s “Lady Grinning Soulâ€?; it has the best music in the ďŹ lm, it scopes the judgment of a row of scornful Valley girls and the mixed emotions of the teachers watching, alarmed but touched by Currie’s raw need. Fanning’s take on Currie as unformed and modest of talent, ripe for the exploitation, is matched against her friendship (with beneďŹ ts) with Kristen Stewart’s Joan Jett, a focused, daring professional even at a young age. This biopic of a minor all-girl band of the 1970s makes the case for them as pioneers. Jett had that credibility, but the second best song in this ďŹ lm,“Bad Reputation,â€? not only comes over the credits but is better used in the upcoming Kick-Ass and came out after the Runaways were ďŹ nished as a band. Unfortunately, producer Kim Fowley (played as a doubledealing psychedelic psycho by Michael Shannon) might not be far off the mark in describing the group as novelties. (RvB) The Secret of Kells (Unrated; 75 min.) Short but ravishing Irish cartoon about their national treasure, the Book of Kells, an 1,800-year-old illuminated manuscript. Young Brendan (voiced by Evan McGuire) is a monk at his uncle’s abbey at Kells in ninth-century Meath. The merciless Viking raiders approach, but Brendan is more interested in the arrival of a fellow artist to the monastery: the aged brother Aidan (Mick Lally), who carries with him the book which later will be known as the Book of Kells. When Aidan sends the boy out into the wolf-haunted forest to seek pigments, he encounters a fairy named Aisling; she’s voiced by Christen Mooney who has one of those cracked, oldyoung voices you sometimes hear—Marianne Faithfull’s, for instance. What’s stressed here is art as the hope of civilization, representing something more than life. The love of nature also radiates from this movie; directors Tomm Moore, Nora Twomey and the rest of the artists at Cartoon Saloon have indeed made something that’s beautiful yet never airy-fairy. (RvB) Why Did I Get Married Too? (PG-13) The latest comedy in the relentlessly proliďŹ c Tyler Perry’s oeuvre. With Perry and Janet Jackson.

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fellow skaters and drinking friends. It will be a four-pronged assault on the senses: (1) Brand new footage from the upcoming DVD release will project on the wall for at least half an hour; (2) an art show including work by Jai Tanju, Lance Dalgart and Aaron Jones will grace the other walls; (3) Supercharged Eagle custom skateboards will be raffled off; and (4) a performance by RS2 Solid Sound will rock the house. According to anyone who was close to Brauch, he made friends very easily. He was just an allround likeable dude. “As good as he was on the board, he was a thousand times better as a person and a friend,” Tanju told me last year. “He had this infectious laugh and a slightly mischievous way to have a good time that made you want to jump on whatever boat he was on.” The stories are endless, as Brauch crisscrossed the globe and befriended skateboarders on several continents. His influence was long-lasting. There’s even a pub in Australia with his personalized mug. “He was always traveling to faroff places,” Tanju said. “Germany for a demo, Japan for a contest,

Spain for a tour, and so on. Towards the end, it seemed like he was always traveling alone, which he didn’t mind because to him it was all an adventure. What would happen? Who would he meet this time? With every trip came stories and a lot of new-found friends. I still meet people from his travels who he made a huge impact on, not as a skater but more a component of fun and friendship.” Longtime San Jose musician and skater Ray Stevens II agreed: “Besides Tim being just an incredible skateboarder, he was just an incredible high-energy person that was just amazing,” he said. “Anybody who crossed paths with him caught that. He was seriously the happiest guy I’ve ever known.” Along with his band RS2 Solid Sound, Stevens helped organize much of the music for Supercharged, including the theme song, which goes a little something like this: “Tim Brauch we’ll remember to live each day like you did/ The smile on your face, your style and your grace/ The legacy you left we’ll never forget.” All of the folks in RS2 Solid Sound were either friends of Tim’s, they knew of him, or are skaters

themselves. Other bands featured in the movie include local ’80s skate punk heroes The Faction and Los Olvidados, plus more recent bands like the Shitkickers. “Basically, just a lot of the local music Tim liked,” said Stevens. In just the time since the film debuted last year, there have been new custom Supercharged decks, T-shirts and sweatshirts. The film went on to premiere in several other cities, with the DVD to be released in a few months. “We just want to make sure people remember Tim,” said Stevens. “And I just want to do everything I can, musicwise, to at least represent that. As much as this project was great to work on, it’s also really sad because we miss him a lot. Hopefully this movie will end up on PBS or somewhere where kids can really learn about him. Pete went a long way to make sure there wasn’t too much cussing or stories about partying or whatever. Because Tim is a legend. He really is.” SUPERCHARGED: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF TIM BRAUCH screens Tuesday, April 13, at 8pm at the Blank Club, 44 S. Almaden Ave., San Jose. Tickets are $8; 408.29.BLANK.

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week for you to perfect your ability to crow like a rooster, Aries. I also recommend that you practice your skill at leaping out of bed in the morning fully refreshed, with your imagination primed and ready to immediately begin making creative moves. Other suggested exercises: being on the alert for what’s being born; holding a vision of the dawn in your heart throughout the day; and humorously strutting around like you own whatever place you’re in.

IVjgjh (April 20–May 20): I got a spam email

containing supposed words of wisdom from the Dalai Lama. “We spend more, but have less,” it said. “We have more conveniences, but less time; more experts, yet more problems.” It went on like this for a while. I was suspicious. It seemed to contain too many pop platitudes to have been uttered by the Dalai Lama. With Google’s help, I did some research and discovered that the passage was actually the handiwork of pastor Bob Moorehead, who resigned from his Seattle church under a cloud of allegations about misconduct. I urge you to make similar investigations of the ostensible truths you receive this week, Taurus. You may find discrepancies as major as the differences between the Dalai Lama and Bob Moorehead.

<Zb^c^ (May 21–June 20): A life-long dream of mine came true recently, and I didn’t even know it was a life-long dream until it happened. It struck unexpectedly on a Tuesday afternoon. My daughter called on the phone from her college dorm room, wanting to discuss an essay she’d been assigned for her History of Modern Art class. She really liked it, but there were some points she wanted to understand better, and she thought my input might help. The essay? The “Surrealistic Manifesto,” formulated in 1924 by the writer André Breton. Years ago, it was a crucial document in my own development as a young poet. The opportunity to share its heady brew with the beloved child I used to push on a swing was startlingly blissful. I predict a similar event for you in the coming days, Gemini: the fruition of a life-long dream you didn’t even know you had. 8VcXZg ( June 21–July 22): It’s probably true for a lot of celebrities that their public personas are not accurate reflections of their private lives. One striking example is actress Megan Fox, who’s famous for being a sex goddess. But the fact is, she told Harper’s Bazaar magazine, she has only slept with two men in her life, and it makes her ill to even contemplate having sex with someone she doesn’t love. While it may not bother her to have a reputation that’s so different from her inner world, I wouldn’t say the same about you—especially now. I urge you to do what you can to create more harmony between the version of yourself that you project outward and the version of yourself you actually live in. AZd ( July 23–Aug. 22): In her poem “The Gift,”

Chinese poet Shu Ting writes, “I dream the dream of a pond who lives not just to mirror the sky but to let willow trees on the bank drink me up.” This would be an excellent dream for you to dream in the coming week, Leo. It would also be empowering for you to render its themes in your waking life. I think you will derive great pleasure and sound teaching from mirroring a soaring archetype and feeding an intimate primal force. (Shu Ting’s poem was translated by Tony Barnstone and Newton Liu.)

K^g\d (Aug. 23–Sept. 22): Are you an athlete? If so, I suspect that you will soon make an adjustment in your training or technique that will improve your game. Are you an artist, musician, writer, performer, or dancer? I bet you will get a sweet insight about the creative process that could revolutionize your work in the months to come. Are you a pilgrim on a meandering long-distance quest to a promised land whose location you’re not exactly sure of ? Any minute now, you’ll uncover a clue that will dramatically narrow down the possibilities of where the promised land is. A^WgV (Sept. 23–Oct. 22): There may be times in the coming week when you will in a sense be dreaming while standing up. On other occasions, you may be hard at work while lying down. In fact, I suspect that the law of reversals will be in full bloom. Things that have been last will, at least

temporarily, be first, and influences that have calmed you down will rile you up. What has been crazy may be quite sane, and what has been in the shadows will come into the light. Tight squeezes may turn into expansive releases and heavy-duty commitments will get a dose of slack—and vice versa. Always vice versa.

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engaged in some ongoing battle with ourselves. Maybe there’s a conflict between our heart and head. Maybe we’re trying to stop expressing some behavior that we know is self-destructive but seems all too natural and easy to do. Maybe we feel guilty about or resentful toward some event from the past, and are constantly fighting with its after-image. Whatever your version of the civil war might be, Scorpio, the coming weeks will be an excellent time to reduce the heat of the strife. But you’ll have to be ingenious as you reframe the way you think about the situation, and you’ll have to locate a reservoir of willpower that has been hidden in your depths.

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excellent time for you to take inventory of what brings you pleasure. According to my reading of the astrological omens, you’re due for an update and upgrade. Some of your tried-and-true strategies for generating joys and thrills are fraying at the edges. You should consider refurbishing them, even as you also think about going in quest of fresh sources of delight. For extra credit, see if you can gain access to an experience that could accurately be described as “a blessed state of bliss.”

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for you to whet your appetite, but please don’t go too far and spoil your appetite. Imagine and plan for the feast to come; make sure the evolution of the feast is on track; but don’t try to actually enjoy the entire feast yet. It’s not ready, you see. The “cooking” isn’t complete. To dive in now would be like eating a chocolate cake that has only been baking in the oven for ten minutes. In conclusion, Capricorn, strike a balance between practicing watchful patience and cultivating protective excitement.

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the week is “fulcrum.” It’s derived from a Latin verb meaning “to prop up, support,” and its definitions include the following: 1. the stable point on which a lever pivots; 2. the crux of a percussionist’s grip as he or she holds a drumstick; 3. an agent through which vital powers are exercised. I suggest you meditate on where the metaphorical fulcrums are in your life, and then take creative measures to give them extra care and enhance their strength.

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replica of an ancient Egyptian atef, a white crown surmounted by two ostrich feathers. My white cashmere robe, decorated with Qabalistic sigils, was sewn for me by a Wiccan priestess. My wand is shaped like the head of a Kalao bird and once belonged to a shaman from Burkina Faso. Aided by these accessories, I gaze into my magic mirror and conjure the spirit of my deceased great-uncle Felix, a successful businessman born under the sign of Pisces. He has always been a reliable source of inside info for me in the past. “Dear ancestor,” I murmur, “do you have an oracular revelation for my Piscean readers?” And he replies: “Tell them their money mojo is stronger than usual. Urge them to bargain aggressively and make sure they get a percentage of the gross, not just of the net profits.”

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You’re not the first person to think what works in space might work on earth. Last summer U.S. energy secretary Steven Chu called on Americans to either paint their roofs white or replace their shingles with white materials. To understand why, you don’t need to travel in space, just compare black and white car seats on a hot summer day. Sure, the white seat will get pretty warm, but the black seat will just about sear your flesh. How much good will a white roof do you? Example: The Hyperseal company claims its Hyperglass paint, which contains glass microspheres to help reflect sunlight and insulate the roof, can keep your roof as cool as 112 degrees on a 100-degree day. That may sound pretty toasty, but compare it to a black asphalt roof, which on a 100-degree day can reach 182 degrees. According to Lawrence Berkeley Laboratories, white-coated roofs can reflect 60 to 85 percent of the solar energy that hits them and stay as little as 9 degrees above air temperature. Dark-colored roofs, by contrast, typically reflect 20 percent of sunlight or less, and a black asphalt roof reflects only 5 percent. I’m guessing few people are crazy enough to install a black asphalt roof in Tampa, but if your roof is a darkish color, you might think about switching to white. What if a white roof just isn’t you? One might think a shiny metal roof would be a reasonable alternative, but don’t be too sure—metal roofs often don’t release the thermal radiation they’ve absorbed as efficiently as white ones. Other disadvantages of metal roofs include poor sound insulation, susceptibility to hail damage, and cost, so for most folks they’re not the best choice. A white (or at least light-colored) roof provides two benefits. The first is reduced air conditioning costs, which can drop 15 percent to 20 percent. The second benefit is more cosmic. A lighter-colored roof will reflect as much as 80 percent of the solar radiation that hits your house back into space. This increases the albedo (reflectivity) of the planet, which could help reduce global warming—surely a worthwhile goal for any home improvement project. The anti-warming effects can pay off on the

local level too, reducing smog and generally making the neighborhood more livable. Lawrence Berkeley estimates that installing so-called cool roofs and cool pavement and planting trees over 30 percent of the Los Angeles basin would lower the average outside temperature by five degrees, which would in turn reduce smog by 10 percent. Other studies claim painting all of the world’s roofs white could have a cumulative global cooling effect equal to removing 24 billion tons of CO2 from the atmosphere over a 20-year period—a figure not far from total current man-made CO2 emissions for a year. Light-colored roofs have a couple of downsides, one of which will be obvious to anyone who’s ever owned a white couch— they get dirty. Rain helps some, but over time your roof is going to accumulate tree sap, bird poop, and other species of urban crud, and you’ll have to clean it off to maintain the energy savings. One study found on average a white roof can lose 20 percent of its heat reflectivity in just a year. A cooler roof also means your house soaks up less sunlight in the winter, resulting in higher heating bills. On the whole, though, the trade-off tends to be favorable. How favorable will vary with local climate: in Boston you might spend an extra 15 cents on heat for every dollar you save in air conditioning, whereas in Alabama your increased heating costs could be just a nickel per buck of AC savings. Other possible pitfalls include blinding your neighbors and fighting with the aesthetics committee of your homeowners’ association. Another issue is that energy prices are relatively low at the moment—in most cases it’s not economically worthwhile to replace a roof with some remaining useful life. However, if yours is due for replacement soon, or simply painting it is an option, I’d give a cool roof some thought. You could save a couple bucks and help make this a better world.

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PLACE OF LEGEND The Coggeshall Mansion on North Santa Cruz Avenue in Los Gatos has been home to a famously flirtatious widow, a mortuary, two popular restaurants and (so it is said) at least one ghost.

In 1917 the sprawling estate was transformed into a funeral home that served the town for six decades. In 1977 it was converted into the Chart House Restaurant (and briefly Chart’s). From 2007 until last September, it was Trevese, one of Silicon Valley’s celebrated restaurants and recipient of a Michelin star. Since Trevese closed, Coggeshall Mansion has stood empty. Now owner Grant Sedgwick has decided to put it up for sale. It’s “a victim of the times,” says Sedgwick, explaining why he has had a hard time finding a new tenant. The location and building are certainly desirable. Situated on Santa Cruz Avenue in the heart of downtown Los Gatos, the Queen Anne–style Victorian is the only survivor of what was once a string of private mansions and estates that graced the route from San Jose to Santa Cruz. It is a building with a history—and a ghost or two to back it up—though the mansion itself might quote the Widow Mary, and caution people not to believe “the tales being spread about me.”

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egend has it that Coggeshall Mansion was a gift to the eccentric Mary Coggeshall from an unknown suitor. The “Widow Mary,” as she was called, was a well-known flirt who arrived in Los Gatos in 1891 with her two children, Geneva and Russell.

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And yet, how can one not believe at least some of the eerie accounts about a home and restaurant that was once a funeral parlor? Many of the stories describe a young, blond-haired boy (or girl) who seems to be running down the street. More likely are the stories of the ghostly bar patron, who liked to ring up a tab on the cash register late at night, when the restaurant was closed. (It’s a good sign for prospective investors in the bar. Even after hours, they’ll be attracting a bustling business in spirits.) But the ghosts are hardly what will sell this piece of real estate.

It is far more likely that people will be drawn to the perfectly maintained edifice, with its terrace and tower—a reminder of days gone by in the Bay Area—and its newly refurbished modern interior, with warm lighting in shades of chocolate and sage. The design, it is said, is much like the menu that Chef Michael Miller once offered at Trevese: “Classic themes reinterpreted with modern American craftsmanship.” At 7,500 square feet, the Coggeshall Mansion is spacious. It is ideally suited for a restaurant, with a conditional use permit for 153 seats, which can be expanded to 181. It also has all the amenities that would be needed for a fine-dining establishment, including a basement-level prep kitchen, as well as a walk-in cooler and freezer, dry goods storage and wine storage area. The main kitchen is located on the first floor, along with the dining area, bar and reception area. Banquets and other special events can be hosted on the 1,300-square-foot second floor, or on a generously proportioned deck. Some tend to forget that Coggeshall Mansion, for two-thirds of its long life, was not a restaurant but a home and mortuary. The wroughtiron fence still has the double swing gate the hearses passed through. The opportunities for the site are tremendous, and might even one day include the revival of a shelved-for-now plan to add outdoor pavilions (of 424 square feet and 1,176 square feet) on the property for high-end boutique shopping. With that in mind, one thing is certain. No matter what Coggeshall Mansion’s new owners plan to do with the property, it is sure to remain a Los Gatos landmark.

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