KATHARINE 'KATIE' LOWENSTEIN— His first foray into marriage (1993—1997). They met during their fourth year at Columbia, and by the time graduation came around, they were married. It was a whirlwind romance that had many ups and downs from the start; they loved each other, but Saul was easily distracted by parties and work, while Katie wanted to hurry and grow up already. Their wedding was quick and rushed, eloping one weekend to his and her parents' consternation. (Though they hadn't officially met until college, they both came from prominent Jewish dynasties in New England, so their respective families were already acquainted with each other; it was the only reason that the Weissbergs and the Lowensteins were okay with Saul and Katie's subsequent elopement.) Soon after, Katie was pregnant with their one and only son, Micah. By the time Saul graduated law school and Katie had taken on most of the parenting, their rushed marriage was quickly falling apart. Katie had moved out to Westchester by the time Saul was hired at his first law firm and their divorced was finalized by the time he was hired at his second. After that, Saul dedicated most of his time to work, sacrificing his relationship with his son, which made his co-parenting relationship with Katie incredibly strained due to his constant broken promises to their son. Nearly thirty years since Micah's birth, they're at the point where they can be in the same room for their son's sake, but Katie has no problem making it obvious how much she still resents Saul. Out of all of his wives, he knows he failed Katie—and Micah—the most. After their acrimonious divorce, Katie remained in Westchester where she raised Micah as a single mother.

TAMARA BETHELL— His second marriage and longest by far (2000—2009). Already years into his successful career as a lawyer, Tamara had been a new secretary hired at the firm and Saul took instant notice of the beautiful, redheaded Tamara. Like all of his romantic relationships, it happened pretty instantaneously and they fell deeply in love after just a few months. Like with Katie, he proposed on a whim to Tamara, but this time, they actually planned out their wedding. Her parents weren't thrilled that she was marrying a Jewish man after just a few months of dating, especially since she was 23 to Saul's 28, but the displeasure deepened to abject hatred when they found out Saul had no desire to have more children, much to Tamara's surprise. It was something they should have discussed before getting married, but the topic somehow hadn't come up until after. Tamara was devastated, as she wanted nothing more than a family, but she held out for nine years before she decided she couldn't live without having children. Their relationship was the most consistently pleasant out of his marriages, as Tamara had a habit of putting Saul's feelings over her own and compromising when she didn't want to, but after nine years together, they both came to the conclusion that they weren't meant to be together after all. Their divorce was the smoothest, friendliest break up that Saul had witnessed in over a decade of being a divorce lawyer. Since the divorce, Tamara got remarried and now lives happily with her husband and two children in suburban New Jersey.

THALIA CLARK— His third and most recent marriage (2017—2022). Their meeting was either destined or entirely random, but at the Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner that fateful year, Saul and Thalia were sat the same table. From their name cards on their plates, the two deduced they were both lone Jews at a Catholic charity gala dinner, and from then on, it was like nothing he had felt before. After his second divorce, there was still hope in Saul's heart that he'd find love again; it took him eight years to find his next wife, but the moment he locked eyes with Thalia at that charity dinner, he knew she was the one. From there, the pair were inseparable. As was his pattern, he proposed way too early and their engagement was short. Finally, though, he got a proper Jewish wedding that he missed out on with Katie (they eloped) and Tamara (she was raised Protestant and refused to convert, nor he would've converted to Protestantism for her). The marriage was nearly perfect from the outset, despite how Kathleen, Thalia's sister, disapproved. Thalia was a great date to the various charity galas and holiday parties at the firm, but in her words, she was losing her identity to being Mrs. Saul Weissberg. Then her older sister had moved back to their hometown of Providence Peak, Colorado, which added further strain to their marriage when she desperately wanted to move home to be with her sister. Saul, ever the workaholic, retreated into his job to avoid dealing with their marital problems and Thalia did much of the same, to the point that when they did have a conversation, it was stiff and bordering on a fight. In an effort to save their marriage, Saul relented on moving to Providence Peak in hopes of opening his own firm, ready to branch out after making partner at thirty many moons ago. Unfortunately, the move broke their marriage instead of fixing it, and after just a year of being in Colorado, they were headed towards divorce. In Saul's view, the divorce was amicable because Thalia seemingly didn't want anything to do with him anymore, but recently, Saul has learned their breakup wasn't as mutual as he had thought after a chance encounter at the Spring Extravaganza baseball game. Post-divorce, Thalia has started working as a yoga teacher at the local yoga studio, and Saul has continued his efforts to make his firm successful.

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DESAPARECIDOS El millonario Alfred Lowenstein

Ad for Such Men are Dangerous (working title: The Mask of Love; Kenneth Hawks [despite the ad], 1930, Fox Film Corp.) in Exhibitors Herald World, 15 June 1929. The AFI Catalog entry for this film is nuts...

SYNOPSIS: Belgian financier Ludwic Kranz (Warner Baxter), who believes that wealth can buy him anything, marries Elinor (Catherine Dale Owen), a beautiful young girl who is virtually forced into the marriage for financial reasons. She deserts him, repulsed by his disfigured face, and he sails for Germany, leaving the impression that he has committed suicide. There his face is transformed under the care of a plastic surgeon (I assume Dr. Erdmann, played by Bela Lugosi), and he returns to revenge himself on his wife; but when this woman who has despised him actually falls in love with him, he relents and is willing to forget the past.

The film was released in both sound (Movietone) and silent versions (not atypical for the early sound era).

FROM THE AFI CATALOG: On 2 January 1930, while filming a flying sequence for the picture, director Kenneth Hawks (1898 - 1930), assistant director Max Gold, cameramen George Eastman and Conrad Wells, assistant cameramen Otto Jordan and Ben Frankel, prop men Thomas Harris and Henry Johannes, and pilots Hallock Rouse and Ross Cooke were killed in a two-plane, mid-air collision off the coast of San Pedro in Southern California. According to Los Angeles Times news articles in early January 1930, Hawks’ brother, director Howard Hawks, had been at the airfield when the planes took off, but decided not to fly. Kenneth Hawks had been married to actress Mary Astor since 1928.

As noted in reviews, Such Men Are Dangerous was inspired by the life of internationally famous Belgian financier and aviator Alfred Lowenstein (1877 - 1928), who died under mysterious circumstances on 4 July 1928, when he fell from his private plane as it was crossing the English Channel. The highly publicized incident prompted various theories about Lowenstein’s disappearance, from suicide, murder, or, as dramatized in the film, an attempt to escape his old life and start over under a new identity.

Resumen de In-Edit 2019

Pedro Suárez

¿Te imaginas cómo sería meterte en el estudio de grabación con PJ Harvey? ¿Acompañarías a unos porteros de discoteca en Berlín durante alguno de sus turnos de trabajo? ¿Qué tal una fiesta en Ibiza? ¿Y un viaje a la época dorada del trash metal de San Francisco? Estas son sólo algunas de las posibilidades que nos ha ofrecido la edición de este año del Festival de Documental Musical In-Edit. Una doble cita en Barcelona y Madrid que se ha cerrado con las salas repletas y un montón de historias fascinantes con la música como telón de fondo.

Biografías fascinantes

Ideales para mitómanos, estos documentales suelen copar las programaciones del festival. Y este año ha vuelto a suceder. Nuestra favorita de In-Edit 2019 es "Swans: Where Does a Body End?" (Marco Porsia). Se trata de un retrato de Michael Gira y su peculiar mundo, ese universo oscuro que ha reflejado en su música. Porsia nos regala un completo repaso a la vida y obra de Gira, con visitas a su convulsa niñez, o a su juventud en la sucia Nueva York de hace más de tres décadas. Lo cuentan él y sus compañeros de fatigas en las distintas fases que ha atravesado una banda que hoy está más viva que nunca. Gira es todo un chamán del ruido.

Muy interesante también "It must Schwing - Blue Note Records" (Eric Friedler), documental producido por Wim Wenders que cuenta la historia de Alfred Lion y Francis Wolff, dos judíos berlineses que emigraron a Nueva York en los años 30, huyendo del nazismo. En la Gran Manzana fundaron el Blue Note Records, sello legendario de jazz por el que pasaron figuras de la talla de Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock o John Coltraine, entre otros.

Desgarrador resulta "Mystify: Michael Hutchence" (Richard Lowenstein), por su forma de abordar el ascenso al olimpo de los grandes iconos, y posterior descenso a los infiernos de Hutchence. Amplio compendio de testimonios de amigos, ex parejas y músicos que formaron parte de la vida del que fue líder de una de las bandas australianas más exitosas de todos los tiempos: INXS.

Breve. Muy breve fue la carrera de Lil Peep, fallecido a los 21 años. Una fulgurante trayectoria que ha dado hasta para un documental "Everybody's Everything" (Sebastian Jones y Ramez Silyan). La que sigue al pie del cañón es Suzy Quatro, cuya historia nos narra "Suzi Q" (Liam Firmager). 

El omnipresente David Bowie, o más concretamente su época inicial, dominada por su alter-ego más célebre y celebrado, Ziggy Stardust, también ha estado presente en el festival. "David Bowie: Finding Fame" (Francis Whately, 2019) se proyectó gratuitamente, para deleite de los que lograron su pase.

Otras grandes figuras que han tenido su hueco en In-Edit 2019 son David Crosby ("David Crosby: Remember My Name"), Miles Davis ("Miles Davis - Birth of Cool"), Teddy Pendegrass ("Teddy Pendergrass: If You Don't Know Me"), la banda Suede ("Suede: The Insatiable Ones") o los ZZ Top ("ZZ Top: That Little Ol' Band From Texas").

Discos inolvidables

Hay discos que marcan una época y permanecen en el imaginario colectivo mundial. Es el caso de "Imagine" (Apple/EMI, 1973), esa obra maestra concebida por John Lennon y Yoko Ono en el lugar y momento justos para unificar inspiración y protesta. "John Lennon And Yoko Ono : Above Us Only Sky" (Michael Epstein) es una cinta, excepcionalmente documentada, que aborda el proceso de composición del disco y recoge testimonios de quienes lo vivieron de cerca.

"PJ Harvey: A Dog Called Money" (Seamus Murphy), es una maravilla que nos muestra la creación de un disco desde dentro. PJ Harvey se desplaza, junto al fotógrafo y documentalista Seamus Murphy, a Kosovo, Kabul y alrededores, y Anacostia (un barrio deprimido de Washington D. C.). En estos lugares tan dispares, Polly Jean encontró la inspiración para lo que vino a ser su noveno álbum de estudio, "The Hope Six Demolition Project" (Island Records, 2016). Además de acompañarla en estos viajes a pie de calle, asistimos, con saltos en el tiempo, a la grabación del disco en los bajos de la Somerset House of Art, una sesión muy especial con público, que pudo contemplar el proceso sin ser visto. Una experiencia inmersiva, como el propio documental.

Otras miradas

Este año hemos tenido también historias de amor eternas, como la de Leonard Cohen con su musa Marianne. "Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love" (Nick Broomfield) nos traslada a la isla de Hidra, escenario idílico en el que se fraguó este romance. También hemos ido a la Barcelona que acogió a Keith Haring y su famoso mural contra el SIDA que inicialmente se encontraba en la Plaza de Salvador Seguí, en "Keith Haring 1989 Barcelona" (Lulu Martorell, Roger La Puente y César de Melero). 

Esperábamos más de "Berlin Bouncer" (David Dietl), una aproximación a la fiesta de Berlín desde la perspectiva de tres porteros de discoteca. Nos adentramos en la parte más personal y cercana de cada uno de ellos, lo cual está bien, pero se echa de menos más anecdotario nocturno.

"Murder in the Front Row" recopila una época muy significativa en California, más concrétamente en la bahía de San Francisco. Con participación de artistas que abanderaron el trash de los 80, como Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth o Exodus, entre muchos otros.

Niño de Elche es un personaje que no deja indiferente a nadie. El documental sobre su persona no podía ser menos. "Niños somos todos" (Sergi Cameron) lo lleva a Bolivia en busca de procesos creativos. El director y Paco Contreras, la a.k.a. "Niño de Elche", presentaron esta original pieza que ha sido galardonada con el Premio Nacional In-Edit 2019.

En la categoría internacional, ha sido premiada "The Men's Room" (Petter Sommer y Jo Vemund Svendsen), una historia sobre un coro de hombres noruegos con el proyecto de ejercer de teloneros de Black Sabbath. Todo normal hasta que reciben la terrible noticia de que su conductor tiene cáncer terminal. Para historias sorprendentes la de "Mr. Jimmy" (Peter Michael Dowd) sobre un guitarrista japonés imitador de Jimmy Page. 

La mirada de Julien Temple no puede faltar en In-Edit. Este año con "Ibiza - The Silent Movie" a ritmo de Fatboy Slim.

Talento joven

Un año más, se exhibieron, en competición, una serie de cortometrajes de talento joven, entre los que se escogió al galardonado con el Premio al Mejor Cortometraje, "Les Resilients" (Cristina Madrid).

Pudimos ver a David Trueba, que presentaba "Si me borrara el viento lo que yo canto” sobre Chicho Sánchez Ferlosio. Tenía programada también una charla en el Auditori del Campus del Poblenou, de la Universitat Pompeu Fabra, pero tuvo que suspenderse por la convocatoria de huelga de estudiantes.

Echamos en falta alguna reposición del recientemente desaparecido D. A. Pennebaker, aunque es cierto que ha tenido su espacio en In-Edit en ediciones pasadas, visitando incluso el festival, junto a su mujer y colaboradora Chris Hegedus en 2010.

Han sido unos cuantos días de maratón intensa de cine. Ahora toca esperar hasta una próxima edición.

January 15 - January 28

Last two weeks' posts below.

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1/16: "Adam Jones had a great idea for dance moves that Andrew McCutchen could teach Evan Longoria" (Link)

1/17: "5 things that Justin Morneau can teach the Twins as their newest special assistant" (Link)

1/19: "The Phillies and the Phanatic brought pizza to the Nemours/Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children" (Link)

1/20: "A new species of wasps in Florida was named after Ichiro Suzuki" (Link)

1/20: "Twins players led a 'Skol' chant at TwinsFest for the Vikings' NFC Championship Game" (Link)

1/22: "You can play with more than 100 MLB legends in the newest edition of R.B.I. Baseball" (Link)

1/24: "Track the new Hall of Famers' careers from their first team to Cooperstown" (Link)

1/24: "Andrew McCutchen tried to lip sync a duet with his baby son, Steel" (Link)

1/24: "Cole Hamels returned to Philadelphia for a 76ers game and received a standing ovation" (Link)

1/26: "The A's walked down the runway with their glorious new kelly green alternate jerseys" (Link)

1/27: "John Lowenstein went from Orioles role player to postseason folk hero in just three plays" (Link)

1/27: "This college outfielder submitted a candidate for catch of the year ... in January" (Link)

1/27: "The Phillies have reportedly signed Francisco Rodriguez, who's hoping for another comeback" (Link)

1/28: "The Brewers couldn't resist the appeal of Girl Scout cookies from a young fan named Claire" (Link)

A Scene of Ice and Fire

1/18: "Ep. 34: Cleganebowl v.0" (Link)

1/24: "Ep. 35: Theon Greyjoy, Serious Boy" (Link)

Cafaggiolo e la nuova strada. Accolto (forse) il tracciato dei cittadini

Cafaggiolo e la nuova strada. Accolto (forse) il tracciato dei cittadini

A quanto sembra i cittadini di San Giusto a Fortuna, riuniti in comitato hanno ottenuto, presso la Regione Toscana, di cambiare il tracciato della nuova strada di Cafaggiolo (clicca qui per gli articoli di OK!Mugello con le loro proposte).

La necessità di spostare la strada da davanti alla villa, lo ricordiamo, era stata avanzata dall’imprenditore Alfred Lowenstein come condizione per realizzare…

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“Un bene mobile o immobile si può acquistare, si può vendere, ma un’eredità storica e culturale non si può mercanteggiare, si può solo custodire, preservare, conservare per i nostri figli e per i figli dei nostri figli“, con queste parole ha concluso il suo intervento Diana Lowenstein alla presenza del marito Alfred, delle figlie, del sindaco Nardella e di tanti altri ospiti intervenuti alla conferenza stampa di presentazione del progetto di rilancio della ex Caserma Vittorio Veneto a Firenze.

“Vogliamo riconsegnare alla città un’eredità storica” dichiara Alfred Lowenstein, molto conosciuto qui in Mugello per essere il “custode” della tenuta Medicea del Castello di Cafaggiolo acquistata nel lontano 2007. Nonostante che il progetto nel Mugello sia incagliato per problemi a noi sconosciuti, Lowenstein non si ferma e continua a perseverare nel suo innamoramento per Firenze.

A pochi passi dal centro storico al Famiglia Lowenstein ha acquistato l’ex caserma in riva all’Arno: il complesso medievale, con due conventi, di 30mila metri quadri (chiuso da 20 anni) per trasformarlo in una destinazione ‘storico-ricettiva’. Si tratta di una struttura di alto livello, che permetterà di valorizzare il patrimonio storico, artistico e architettonico di un complesso che occupa una superficie di oltre tre ettari. Sono queste le coordinate del piano di recupero dell’ex Caserma Vittorio Veneto in Costa San Giorgio, la struttura architettonica risalente all’anno 1000, nata dalla fusione di due antichi conventi e fino al 1998 sede della Scuola di sanità militare.

Il progetto per la riqualificazione del complesso, distribuito su una superficie coperta di 9 mila metri quadrati e scoperta di 21 mila, prevede un investimento di 160 milioni di euro e l’occupazione di circa 250 persone, durante il cantiere ipotizzato in 30 mesi di lavori, e di 300 persone una volta divenuta operativa la struttura turistico-ricettiva.

L’inizio dei lavori, dopo la proposta di variante urbanistica che sarà presentata al Comune di Firenze nei prossimi mesi e che sancirà il via libera a procedere, è previsto per la fine del 2017 con l’ apertura della struttura nel 2020.

I particolari sono stati resi noti stamani in occasione del primo sopralluogo organizzato dalla proprietà alla presenza del sindaco Dario Nardella e delle autorità. Nell’occasione sono stati premiati i tre studi di progettazione vincitori del bando sul concept urbanistico che rappresenterà la base, non vincolante, per la proposta di variante urbanistica per la definizione della destinazione d’uso dell’immobile.

La gestione e lo sviluppo dell’operazione è affidata alla Marzocco Investment & Development, società composta di un team di lavoro italiano, specializzata nella valorizzazione di edifici di pregio storico ed architettonico e nella loro trasformazione in strutture turistico-ricettive.

“La scelta della Toscana è stata una scelta d’amore – hanno spiegato Alfredo e Diana Lowenstein – perché la bellezza e la varietà del suo territorio, la straordinaria ricchezza del patrimonio artistico-culturale delle sue città ci hanno da sempre affascinato. Il colpo di fulmine è scattato 50 anni fa, quando abbiamo trascorso la nostra luna di miele proprio a Firenze, scelta per la nostra grande passione per la storia della famiglia dei Medici e del Rinascimento. Oggi facciamo un primo importante passo verso il nuovo destino di questa struttura, con lo sviluppo di un progetto di valorizzazione che, dopo tanti anni di abbandono, ridarà lustro e vita ad un patrimonio di inestimabile valore. Ci proponiamo di offrire al mercato dell’ospitalità una proposta assolutamente originale, di carattere esperienziale, capace di trasmettere le suggestioni di luoghi secolari che fanno parte della storia di questa città”.

Preleva qui il quadro conoscitivo della Famiglia Lowenstein.

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Diana e Alfred Lowenstein

Marzocco Investiment & Developement

Lowenstein. Mecenati del terzo millennio tra il Mugello e Firenze. Video presentazione di Costa San Giorgio "Un bene mobile o immobile si può acquistare, si può vendere, ma un'eredità storica e culturale non si può mercanteggiare, si può solo custodire, preservare, conservare per i nostri figli e per i figli dei nostri figli…