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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip

The tulip is a perennial, bulbous plant with showy flowers in the genus Tulipa, of which up to 109 species[1] have been described and which belongs to the family Liliaceae.[2] The genus's native range extends from as far west as Southern Europe, Anatolia (Turkey), Israel, Palestine, North Africa, and Iran to the Northwest of China. The tulip's centre of diversity is in the Pamir, Hindu Kush, and Tien Shan mountains.[3] A number of species and many hybrid cultivars are grown in gardens, as potted plants, or to be displayed as fresh-cut flowers. Most cultivars of tulip are derived from Tulipa gesneriana.

Description

Tulips are spring-blooming perennials that grow from bulbs. Depending on the species, tulip plants can grow as short as 4 inches (10 cm) or as high as 28 inches (71 cm). The tulip's large flowers usually bloom on scapes or subscapose[further explanation needed] stems that lack bracts. Most tulips produce only one flower per stem, but a few species bear multiple flowers on their scapes (e.g. Tulipa turkestanica). The showy, generally cup or star-shaped tulip flower has three petals and three sepals, which are often termed tepals because they are nearly identical. These six tepals are often marked on the interior surface near the bases with darker colorings. Tulip flowers come in a wide variety of colors, except pure blue (several tulips with "blue" in the name have a faint violet hue).[4][5]

The flowers have six distinct, basifixed stamens with filaments shorter than the tepals. Each stigma of the flower has three distinct lobes, and the ovaries are superior, with three chambers.[further explanation needed] The tulip's fruit is a capsule with a leathery covering and an ellipsoid to subglobose shape.[further explanation needed] Each capsule contains numerous flat, disc-shaped seeds in two rows per chamber.[6] These light to dark brown seeds have very thin seed coats and endosperm that does not normally fill the entire seed.[7]

Tulip stems have few leaves, with larger species tending to have multiple leaves. Plants typically have 2 to 6 leaves, with some species having up to 12. The tulip's leaf is strap-shaped, with a waxy coating, and leaves are alternately arranged on the stem; these fleshy blades are often bluish green in color.

Etymology

Although tulips are often associated with the Netherlands, commercial cultivation of the flower began in the Ottoman Empire.[8] Tulips, or lale (from Persian لاله, lâleh) as they are also called in Iran, Turkey, Macedonia and Bulgaria comprise many species that together are indigenous to a vast area encompassing parts of Asia, Europe and north Africa.

The word tulip, which earlier appeared in English in forms such as tulipa or tulipant, entered the language by way of French: tulipe and its obsolete form tulipan or by way of Modern Latin tulīpa, from Ottoman Turkish tülbend ("muslin" or "gauze"), and is ultimately derived from the Persian: دلبند‎ delband ("Turban"), this name being applied because of a perceived resemblance of the shape of a tulip flower to that of a turban.[9]

In Persia, to give a red tulip was to declare your love. The black center of the red tulip was said to represent the lover's heart, burned to a coal by love's passion. To give a yellow tulip was to declare your love hopelessly and utterly.[10]

Cultivation

Tulips are indigenous to mountainous areas with temperate climates and need a period of cool dormancy, known as vernalization. They thrive in climates with long, cool springs and dry summers. Although perennials, tulip bulbs are often imported to warm-winter areas of the world from cold-winter areas, and are planted in the fall to be treated as annuals.

Tulip bulbs are typically planted around late summer and fall, in well-drained soils, normally from 4 inches (10 cm) to 8 inches (20 cm) deep, depending on the type planted. In parts of the world that do not have long cool springs and dry summers, the bulbs are often planted up to 12 inches (30 cm) deep. This provides some insulation from the heat of summer, and tends to encourage the plants to regenerate one large, floriferous bulb each year, instead of many smaller, non-blooming ones.[citation needed] This can extend the life of a tulip plant in warmer-winter areas by a few years, but it does not stave off degradation in bulb size and the eventual death of the plant due to the lack of vernalization.

Propagation

Tulips can be propagated through bulb offsets, seeds or micropropagation.[11] Offsets and tissue culture methods are means of asexual propagation for producing genetic clones of the parent plant, which maintains cultivar genetic integrity. Seed-raised plants show greater genetic variation, and seeds are most often used to propagate species and subspecies or to create new hybrids. Many tulip species can cross-pollinate with each other, and when wild tulip populations overlap geographically with other tulip species or subspecies, they often hybridize and create genetically mixed populations. On the other hand, most commercial tulip cultivars are complex hybrids, and actually sterile. Those hybrid plants that do produce seeds most often have offspring dissimilar to the parents.

Growing saleable tulips from offsets requires a year or more of growth before plants are large enough to flower. Tulips grown from seeds often need five to eight years of growth before plants are flowering size. Commercial growers usually harvest the tulip bulbs in late summer and grade them into sizes; bulbs large enough to flower are sorted and sold, while smaller bulbs are sorted into sizes and replanted, for sale in the future. The Netherlands is the world's main producer of commercially sold tulip plants, producing as many as 3 billion bulbs annually, the majority for export.[12]

Introduction to Western Europe

Although it is unknown who first brought the tulip to Northwestern Europe, the most widely accepted story is that it was Oghier Ghislain de Busbecq, an ambassador for Ferdinand I of Germany to Suleyman the Magnificent of the Ottoman Empire. He remarked in a letter that he saw "an abundance of flowers everywhere; Narcissus, hyacinths and those in Turkish called Lale, much to our astonishment because it was almost midwinter, a season unfriendly to flowers."[13] However, in 1559, an account by Conrad Gessner described tulips flowering in Augsburg, Bavaria in the garden of Councillor Herwart. Due to the nature of the tulip's growing cycle, tulip bulbs are generally removed from the ground in June and must be replanted by September to endure the winter. While possible, it is doubtful that Busbecq could successfully have had the tulip bulbs harvested, shipped to Germany, and replanted between his first sighting of them in March 1558 and Gessner's description the following year. As a result, Busbecq's account of the supposed first sighting of tulips by a European is possibly spurious.

Carolus Clusius planted tulips at the Imperial Botanical Gardens of Vienna in 1573 and later at the Leiden University's newly established Hortus Botanicus, where he was appointed director. There he planted some of his tulip bulbs in late 1593. As a result, 1594 is considered the official date of the tulip's first flowering in the Netherlands, despite reports of the flowers being cultivated in private gardens in Antwerp and Amsterdam two or three decades earlier. These tulips at Leiden would eventually lead to both Tulip mania and the commercial tulip industry in the Netherlands.[14]

Another account of the origin of the tulip in Western Europe is of Lopo Vaz de Sampaio, governor of the Portuguese possessions in India. After attempting to usurp power from the rightful governor, Sampaio was forced to return to Portugal in disgrace.[clarification needed] Supposedly, he took tulip bulbs back to Portugal with him from Sri Lanka. This story does not hold up to scrutiny though because tulips do not occur in Sri Lanka and the island itself is far from the route Sampaio's ships would have likely taken.

Regardless of how the flower originally arrived in Europe, its popularity soared quickly. Carolus Clusius is largely responsible for the spread of tulip bulbs in the final years of the sixteenth century. He finished writing the first major work on tulips in 1592, and he made note of the variations in colour that help make the tulip so admired. While occupying a chair as a faculty member in the school of medicine at the University of Leiden, Clusius planted both a teaching garden and private plot of his own with tulip bulbs. In 1596 and 1598, Clusius suffered thefts from his garden, with over a hundred bulbs stolen in a single raid.

Between 1634 and 1637, the early enthusiasm for the new flowers triggered a speculative frenzy now known as the tulip mania. Tulips would become so expensive that they were treated as a form of currency. Around this time, the ceramic tulipiere was devised for the display of cut flowers stem by stem (bouquets displayed in vases were rare until the 19th century, although such vases and bouquets, usually including tulips, often appeared in Dutch still-life painting). To this day, tulips are associated with the Netherlands, and the cultivated forms of the tulip are often called "Dutch tulips." In addition to the tulip industry and tulip festivals, the Netherlands has the world's largest permanent display of tulips at Keukenhof, although the display is only open to the public seasonally.

Introduction to the United States

It is believed the first tulips in the United States were grown near Spring Pond at the Fay Estate in Lynn and Salem, Massachusetts. From 1847 to 1865, a historic land owner named Richard Sullivan Fay, Esq., one of Lynn's wealthiest men, settled on 500 acres (2.0 km2) located partly in present-day Lynn and partly in present-day Salem. While there, Mr. Fay imported many different trees and plants from all parts of the world and planted them among the meadows of the Fay Estate.[15]

Diseases

Botrytis tulipae is a major fungal disease affecting tulips, causing cell death and eventually the rotting of the plant.[16] Other pathogens include anthracnose, bacterial soft rot, blight caused by Sclerotium rolfsii, bulb nematodes, other rots including blue molds, black molds and mushy rot.[17]

Variegated varieties admired during the Dutch tulipomania gained their delicately feathered patterns from an infection with the tulip breaking virus, a mosaic virus that was carried by the green peach aphid, Myzus persicae. These aphids were common in European gardens of the seventeenth century. While the virus produces fantastically colourful flowers, it also causes weakened plants prone to decline.

Today the virus is almost eradicated from tulip growers' fields. Tulips that are affected by mosaic virus are called "broken tulips"; while such tulips can occasionally revert to a plain or solid colouring, they will remain infected with the virus. While some modern varieties also display multicoloured patterns, the patterns result from breeding selection for a genetic mutation. In these tulips, natural variation in the upper and lower layers of pigment in the flower are responsible for the patterns.

Art and culture

In classic and modern Persian literature, special attention has been given to these flowers and in recent times, tulips have featured in the poems of Simin Behbahani. However, the tulip was a topic for Persian poets as far back as the thirteenth century. Musharrifu'd-din Saadi,[clarification needed] in his poem Gulistan, described a visionary, garden paradise with 'The murmur of a cool stream / bird song, ripe fruit in plenty / bright multicoloured tulips and fragrant roses...'[18]

During the Ottoman Empire, the tulip became very popular in Ottoman territories and was seen as a symbol of abundance and indulgence. In fact, the era during which the Ottoman Empire was wealthiest is often called the Tulip era or Lale Devri in Turkish.

The Black Tulip is the title of a historical romance by the French author Alexandre Dumas, père. The story takes place in the Dutch city of Haarlem, where a reward is offered to the first grower who can produce a truly black tulip.

Today, Tulip festivals are held around the world, including in the Netherlands and Spalding, England.There is also a very popular festival, in Morges, Switzerland. Every spring, there are several tulip festivals in North America, including the Tulip Time Festival in Holland, Michigan, the Skagit Valley Tulip Festival in Skagit Valley, Washington, the Tulip Time Festival in Orange City and Pella, Iowa, and the Canadian Tulip Festival in Ottawa, Canada. Tulips are now also popular in Australia and several festivals are held in September and October, during the Southern Hemisphere's spring.

Scientific classification

Scientifically, the genus Tulipa was traditionally divided into two sections, the Eriostemones, and the Leiostemones (syn. Tulipa), [19] and comprises 87 species. [20]

In 1997 the two sections were raised to subgenera and the subgenus Leiostemones divided into five sections, Clusianae, Eichleres, Kopalkowskiana, Tulipanum and Tulipa. The Eichleres were in turn subdivided into eight series. Subgenus Eriostemones is divided into three sections, Biflores, Sylvestres, and Saxatiles. Other classifications do however exist. In 2009 two other subgenera were proposed, Clusianae and Orithyia (four in all), the latter two only having one section, making twelve sections in all. Some species formerly classified as Tulipa are now considered to be in a separate genus, Amana, including Amana edulis (Tulipa edulis).[20]

Horticultural classification

In horticulture, tulips are divided up into fifteen groups (Divisions) mostly based on flower morphology and plant size

•Div. 1: Single early – with cup-shaped single flowers, no larger than 8 cm across (3 inches). They bloom early to mid season. Growing 15 to 45 cm tall.

•Div. 2: Double early – with fully double flowers, bowl shaped to 8 cm across. Plants typically grow from 30–40 cm tall.

•Div. 3: Triumph – single, cup shaped flowers up to 6 cm wide. Plants grow 35–60 cm tall and bloom mid to late season.

•Div. 4: Darwin hybrid – single flowers are ovoid in shape and up to 8 cm wide. Plants grow 50–70 cm tall and bloom mid to late season. This group should not be confused with older Darwin tulips, which belong in the Single Late Group below.

•Div. 5: Single late – cup or goblet-shaded flowers up to 8 cm wide, some plants produce multi-flowering stems. Plants grow 45–75 cm tall and bloom late season.

•Div. 6: Lily-flowered - the flowers possess a distinct narrow 'waist' with pointed and reflexed petals. Previously included with the old Darwins, only becoming a group in their own right in 1958.[23]

•Div. 7: Fringed (Crispa)

•Div. 8: Viridiflora

•Div. 9: Rembrandt

•Div. 10: Parrot

•Div. 11: Double late - Large, heavy blooms. They range from 18-22 in. tall

•Div. 12: Kaufmanniana - Waterlily tulip. Medium-large creamy yellow flowers marked red on the outside and yellow at the center. Stems 6 in. tall.

•Div. 13: Fosteriana (Emperor)

•Div. 14: Greigii - Scarlet flowers 6 in. across, on 10 in. stems. Foliage mottled with brown. [24]

•Div. 15: Species (Botanical)

•Div. 16: Multiflowering – not an official division, these tulips belong in the first 15 divisions but are often listed separately because they have multiple blooms per bulb.

They may also be classified by their flowering season:

•Early flowering: Single Early Tulips, Double Early Tulips, Greigii Tulips, Kaufmanniana Tulips, Fosteriana Tulips, Species Tulips

•Mid-season flowering: Darwin Hybrid Tulips, Triumph Tulips, Parrot Tulips

•Late season flowering: Single Late Tulips, Double Late Tulips, Viridiflora Tulips, Lily-flowering Tulips, Fringed Tulips, Rembrandt Tulips

List of species

Zonneveld classification showing all 4 subgenera, and 12 sections[20]

Subgenus Clusianae

Section Clusianae

•Tulipa clusiana (Lady Tulip)

•Tulipa linifolia syn. T. batalinii (Bokhara Tulip)

•Tulipa maximowiczii Regel

•Tulipa montana

Subgenus Orithyia

Section Orithyia

•Tulipa heterophylla

•Tulipa heteropetala

•Tulipa uniflora

•Subgenus Tulipa

Section Kolpakowskianae

Tulipa agenensis in Jerusalem forest, Israel

•Tulipa altaica

•Tulipa anisophylla

•Tulipa borszczowii

•Tulipa brachystemon

•Tulipa ferganica

•Tulipa hissarica

•Tulipa iliensis

•Tulipa kolpakowskiana

•Tulipa korolkowii Regel

•Tulipa korshinskyi

•Tulipa lehmanniana

•Tulipa lemmersii Zonn., A. Peterse, J. de Groot sp. nov.

•Tulipa nitida

•Tulipa ostrowskiana

•Tulipa tetraphylla

•Tulipa zenaidae (Zenaida's tulip)

Section Multiflorae

•Tulipa heweri

•Tulipa praestans

•Tulipa subpraestans

Section Lanatae

•Tulipa affinis

•Tulipa carinata

•Tulipa fosteriana

•Tulipa hoogiana

•Tulipa lanata

•Tulipa tubergeniana syn. T. ingens

Section Vinistriatae

•Tulipa alberti

•Tulipa butkovii

•Tulipa greigii

•Tulipa micheliana

•Tulipa mogoltavica

•Tulipa vvedenskyi

Section Spiranthera

•Tulipa berkariensis

•Tulipa dubia

•Tulipa kaufmanniana (Waterlily Tulip)

•Tulipa tschimganica

Section Tulipanum

•Tulipa agenensis syn. T. praecox (illegitime) (Eyed Tulip)

•Tulipa aleppensis (Aleppo Tulip)

•Tulipa armena

•Tulipa cypria

•Tulipa julia

•Tulipa kuschkensis

•Tulipa schmidtii

•Tulipa stapfii

•Tulipa systola

•Tulipa undulatifolia

Section Tulipa

•Tulipa eichleri

•Tulipa florenskyi

•Tulipa gesneriana syn. T. acuminata; T. didieri; T. grengiolensis; T. marjolettii; T. mauritiana; T. platystigma (Horned Tulip)

•Tulipa hungarica

ovar. urumoffii syn. T. urumoffii

•Tulipa karabachensis

•Tulipa rhodopaea

•Tulipa schrenkii

•Tulipa sosnovskyi

•Tulipa suaveolens

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Subgenus Eriostemones

Section Sylvestres

•Tulipa biebersteiniana

•Tulipa celsiana

•Tulipa hageri

•Tulipa orphanidea syn. T. goulimyi (Orange Wild Tulip)

ossp. whittalli syn. T. whittalli

•Tulipa patens

•Tulipa primulina

•Tulipa sprengeri Baker

•Tulipa sylvestris (Wild Tulip)

Section Biflores

•Tulipa biflora

•Tulipa binutans

•Tulipa dasystemon

•Tulipa dasystemonoides

•Tulipa neustruevae

•Tulipa orithyioides

•Tulipa orthopoda

•Tulipa polychroma

•Tulipa regelii

•Tulipa sogdiana

•Tulipa tarda syn. T. urumiensis

•Tulipa turkestanica

•Tulipa turcomanica

Section Saxatiles

•Tulipa cretica

•Tulipa humilis syn. T. aucheriana; T. violacea

•Tulipa pulchella syn. T. kurdica

•Tulipa saxatilis

ossp. bakeri syn. T. bakeri

Other species not in Zonneveld system

•Tulipa botschantzevae (Botschantzeva's tulip)

•Tulipa latifolia

•Tulipa mongolica

•Tulipa retroflexa

•Tulipa sharonensis

•Tulipa splendens

•Tulipa taihangshanica

•Tulipa tracicoquina

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Species reclassified into other genera

•Tulipa anhuiensis, now Amana anhuiensis

•Tulipa edulis, now Amana edulis

•Tulipa erythronioides, now Amana erythronioides

Chemistry

Tulipanin is an anthocyanin found in tulips. It is the 3-rutinoside of delphinidin. The chemical compounds named tuliposides and tulipalins can also be found in tulips and are responsible for allergies.[26] Tulipalin A, or α-methylene-γ-butyrolactone, is a common allergen, generated by hydrolysis of the glucoside tuliposide A. It induces a dermatitis that is mostly occupational and affects tulip bulb sorters and florists who cut the stems and leaves.[27] Tulipanin A and B are toxic to horses, cats and dogs

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James Kirkpatrick Kerr 1841-1916

The Lodge was named after Senator J. K. Kerr who was a DDGM the year Kerr Lodge 230 was incorporated. He subsequently went on to become Grand Master.

The following Biography was provided by W. Bro. David Lawrence, Ionic Lodge, No. 25 GRC, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

James Kirkpatrick Kerr was born near Guelph, Ontario, on August 1, 1841, the son of Robert Warren Kerr (City Chamberlain of Hamilton) and Jane Hamilton Kirkpatrick (daughter of James Kirkpatrick, County Treasurer of Wentworth County). He was educated at the Galt Grammar School (Dr. Tessie’s).

In 1864 he married Anne Margaret Blake, the daughter of the Hon. W. H. Blake, Chancellor of College University). There is no record of any children and his wife died in 1882. In December 1883 he married Cecil Staveley Pinhorne (who would be the President of the Women’s Welcome Hostel in 1908). She was the niece of the Right Honourable Staveley Hill, QC, of London, England.

James Kirkpatrick Kerr became a barrister in 1862 and a bencher of the Law Society in 1879, being named as a QC in 1874. He practiced with Messrs Blake, both of who were active in law and politics, Edward Blake as an MP from 1867 onwards and Samuel Blake as a judge. In 1885 he became a partner in Kerr, Macdonald, Davidson and Paterson. He was a member of the Liberal Party and was President of the Liberal Association. The Governor-General, Earl Minto, called him to the Senate on March 12, 1893. On January 16, 1896 he was named as Speaker of the Senate and in 1911 he was created a Privy Councillor of Canada.

He was an Anglican and served as a delegate to both the Diocesan and Provincial Synods.

He was active in civic affairs and was one of the founders of the Havergal Ladies College in Toronto. He was also a Director of the Canadian General Electric Company.

He was present at the Coronation of King George V and Queen Mary in 1911 and was presented to their Majesties in June 1911.

M. W. Bro. James Kirkpatrick Kerr, KC, died at his home in the city of Toronto on December 4, 1916, after a long illness.

MASONIC CAREER:

James Kirkpatrick Kerr was initiated into Ionic Lodge, No. 25 GRC, Toronto in 1865 and served as WM. He was elected as DDGM in 1874 and later appointed as Grand Representative for the Grand Lodges of Indiana, Missouri, New Jersey, Texas and Utah. He was elected Deputy Grand Master at the nineteenth Annual Communication in July 1874 when M. W. Bro. William Mercer Wilson was elected as Grand Master (for his tenth term). [Note: and R. W. Bro. Thomas Bird Harris was elected for his twentieth successive term as Grand Secretary, although he died shortly afterwards.] On January 16, 1875, M. W. Bro. Wilson passed to the Grand Lodge above and R. W. Bro. Kerr assumed the duties of that office for the next six months. He was 34 years of age at the time. At the Annual Communication in July 1875, he was elected as Grand Master and re-elected in July 1876.

One of the first challenges facing the new Grand Master concerned the request for a Warrant of the brethren interested in forming a new Lodge in London, to be called Eden. Opposition from other Lodges in the area resulted in the issue of a Dispensation to meet but when Eden Lodge attempted to initiate a candidate M. W. Bro. Kerr instructed the Grand Secretary to immediately write to the Lodge and prohibit the meeting as exceeding the authority granted by the Grand Master. In a welter of bad feeling the WM and members of Eden Lodge established the - Grand Lodge of Ontario - with Eden Lodge as a founder. The Grand Master then summarily suspended all members of Eden Lodge, including some dissatisfied members of legitimate Lodges who had joined Eden. Recognition by the Grand Lodge of Texas was almost immediately withdrawn and no other Grand Lodge extended recognition, most have concluded that the move was irregular and revolutionary, spurious and unconstitutional. The issue of Eden Lodge and the -Grand Lodge of Ontario- would not be resolved until 1879-80.

A second challenge was also posed in 1875 when three Lodges in Manitoba District, after mature reflection of the needs of Freemasonry in their new Province, formed a new Grand Lodge. As noted by W. S. Herrington, ?The Grand Lodge of Canada, upon the recommendation of the Board of General Purposes, extended due recognition to the new western star in the Masonic firmament.

YORK RITE:

In Capitular Masonry he was a Royal Arch Mason.

He was a member of the Sovereign Great Priory of Canada and had been Provincial Grand Prior. He visited England and helped to secure the recognition of the Great Priory of England and Wales, as well as its consent, to the establishment of the Sovereign Great Priory of Canada as an independent and sovereign body. For his work in this endeavour he received the Grand Cross of the Temple from the Great Priory of England and Wales at the hands of the then Great Prior, HM King Edward VII.

SCOTTISH RITE:

He was a member of the Scottish Rite and was a Grand Inspector General, 33.

[Sources: (1) A History of the Grand Lodge A. F. & A. M. of Canada in the Province of Ontario 1855 - 1955, by Walter S. Herrington and Roy S. Foley, Published by the authority of Grand Lodge, McCallum Press Ltd., Toronto, 1955 (page 126). (2) The History of the Grand Lodge of Canada in the Province of Ontario 1855-1930, by R. W. Bro. Walter S. Herrington, K.C., F.R.S.C., Deputy Grand Master. (3) Canadian Men and Women of their Time, by H. J. Morgan, 1898 Edition, copy held in the National Library of Canada.]

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CHMSL install by smokuspollutus

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This installment begins back, way way back,back into time. In the days we could have large gatherings, touch our faces, eat inside restaurants, and lived perilously close to the edge of running out of toilet paper. Picture it, Thanksgiving weekend, 2019…Oh wait, back a bit further…August, 1983.

Some dunderhead salesman in southern California takes an order from a buyer with great taste, a beautifully optioned 1984 Eldorado Biarritz in the ultimate color combination of Black/Black/Red. Said dunderhead gets everything right on the order-except for one tiny detail. The desire for a CF5 Astroroof is lost in translation from the prospective buyer and never makes it into the POS.

Car arrives in September. No sunroof. What gives? Our apologies sir, we’ll get that taken care of right away. Car is driven to an ASC installer. Another dunderhead gets out a jigsaw and cuts a hole thru the roof. A 38” (the biggest you can fit in an Eldorado with roof-mounted seatbelts) ASC sunroof is installed. Car is returned to dealership, buyer eagerly accepts delivery, none the wiser about factory vs aftermarket sunroofs.

For those who don’t know, when you order a car with a sunroof, the car is born with a hole in the roof. Mounts are cast into the roof panel, and the sunroof assembly seats in them and the glass panel has a channel for a nice rubber gasket that seals everything up nice. Then a vacuum formed headliner backing board is cast to perfectly hide everything. When you get an aftermarket sunroof, someone gets a stencil and a jigsaw, and cuts your roof panel and headliner open, pops a trim ring in the hole, and hangs a sunroof pan on the trim ring. If you’re lucky they will drill additional reinforcements to marry the pan to the roof structure. Then they get a bunch of headliner material, pull it taught from the corners of the car to the opening in the roof, and send you on down the road.

Anyway, back to Thanksgiving 2019, and the jigsaw dunderhead’s work starts to come undone.

When I had purchased this car, it needed headliner help. The material was loose, but not sagging appreciably. Additionally, someone had tried to superglue the material all around the perimeter. The material was kind of floating in place, which I thought was weird. I ended up getting some super strong neodymium magnets to hold it taught-which worked ok until it was humid out, or driving on the highway with the windows down as the liner would look something like a sailboat in the wind.

My fix was simple-find a factory sunroof equipped car and get the headliner board out of it and pop it into my car. Found out that that was easier said than done, and after a lot of junkyard expedition, kept coming up empty handed. Finally after years, I came into someone parting a factory sunroof Eldo on ebay and after a lot of trouble was able to get it shipped to me

The board needed some help, and after getting all the old foam off of it and some repairs made to restore the structure (the sunroof headliner board is really thin and flimsy, even compared to the stock non-sunroof board) I tore the interior apart to facilitate getting it in and out as I knew I would have to make “some” tweaks to reconcile the aftermarket hole location to the factory one. The sunroof assembly would also need to come out to recover the sunshade; as well as reseal the panel.

We can see here how the trim ring supports the pan assembly from the center. I have to say though, this was about as clean an install as an aftermarket sunroof can come with lots of extra bracing and no factory roof reinforcements cut. We can also see a very chintzy felt seal stuck to the trim ring

Got the sunshade recovered quickly. I later removed the black plastic covered jute that was glued to the pan-factory did not have this and it would have made the board sit too low when installed in the car. The gray rubbery stuff at the front of the pan was also stripped off for the same reason. I also swapped to the factory grab handle that was included with the board.

Also recovered the sail panels. I chose to leave the foam backing on these as it is not the usual headliner stuff that turns to jelly, its more like a sponge material and seemed to be holding up just fine.

I also added PED connectors to the sail panel interior lights that the factory curiously left out. Not sure how they installed these as the harness is one giant piece, but it means that you can’t take the sail panels out without having the lights dangling in the back. This will become important later.

I then devised a new seal. I threw away all the felt and used some 3M Adhesive remover to get rid of the stuff they had glued it with. Nasty stuff but did a good job. The new seal was the first part of this that took a LONG time. Aftermarket roofs from this time use some kind of felt tape to cut down on wind noise and slow water ingress into the pan, and while still available, there is way better out there today. (In spite of how it looked on my car though, it never leaked?!?! Wind noise was an issue with the shade open though) I decided on a rubber seal, and after getting a whole bunch of samples, the stuff I had initially ended up trying was pretty thin, but rigid strip of rubber. After gluing it on with 3M yellow weatherstrip adhesive (which does NOT work as good as the adhesive remover), I put the pan back in the car to see how it would work.

No photos of the failure here, but no good. The material was too rigid and too grippy, and would cause the roof to bind midway thru its travel. Then it tore off in the corners. Ugh! Pan back out, strip off the remaining seal and glue and go back to the drawing board. I ended up buying this

www.austinhardware.com/rubber-seal-single-500-rolls.htm

Which is a hollow piece of rubber that lets the panel travel without binding, and still squishes into a really tight seal. Looks like its out of stock now, but something with close to those measurements in a D-shape is a possibility for someone looking to reseal their ASC aftermarket sunroof. It was another 3M product, that was just a peel and stick affair-way easier than the yellow goopy adhesive route. Seems like a really strong bond, and seals fantastically against wind and water. 0 wind noise now, and no leaks in a downpour when parked, or cruising at highway speeds. Roof moves without binding now

I also decided to put the new seal onto the glass panel itself as it seems like that’s the easier life for it-if I put it around the opening, the pop rivets from the panel would abrade it. Super happy with this.

Next task was of course the headliner. With the pan now back in the car, I could take measurements and properly scribe/cut/fill the board as needed. Again, easier said than done. This was a weeks long ordeal between cutting the board, fiberglassing new material in, more cutting, more filling, coronavirus insanity, etc. Long story short, my roof was installed a few inches more aft than a factory roof would have been, which meant a lot of tweaking to get the kick-up over the rear passengers head in the right spot. Additionally, I needed to build out the map light drop down to accommodate the motor.

Here is the mess I ended up with

I also affixed strips of 3M dual-lock (it is like a heavy duty version of the stuff that holds in an Ezpass) to the back of the board and the pan to hold it tightly-the factory had attempted this with a similar product in the non-sunroof car headliner board. I was super skeptical that my fudgery would cover well at all, but I have to say that foam backed headliner material must be some of the most forgiving stuff around. This took me months to complete, working off and on from November thru April. Ultimately though, I’m happy with it.

While the interior was out, there was another thing I wanted to do. About a year ago, I was following a buddy as he took his Eldorado to drop off at a shop-couldn’t help but notice how small the brake lights (and the rest of the car) seemed compared to all the bulbous modern cars surrounding it. Then I had a couple of SUV’s roll up way too close for comfort on the back of the car-one was close enough that I launched the Eldorado up and to the side to avoid getting hit. Knowing that getting rear ended by a careless driver would probably result in my untimely incarceration, I set out to do something about rear visibility.

The federal government mandated 3rd brake lights for passenger cars for model year 1986. Cadillac was slightly ahead of the curve with this with the 1985 Deville/Fleetwoods which got these in the fall of ’84. Apparently the science is behind them and they do result in fewer rear end collisions. So I decided to add one of them to the Eldo.

There were a few different versions of these things made, with short, medium and long necks to mate with the rear window-one for a Fleetwood Brougham has the tall one, and one for an 80s Buick Riviera like the one seen above is short. The short one is the best size for the Eldo, any taller and it would look pretty bad. Then the gasket that seals it to the window is different for each different model. Fortunately a potato peeler does a great job of cutting things down to size to match the Eldos vertical rear window, and the material can be easily sanded to get out any little imperfections to make it seal nicely and not leak light. An ideal donor for one would be one an 86-91 Eldo or Seville without a factory vinyl or carriage roof.

A quick mockup

All of these lights mount the same way, with this little bracket cutting into the package shelf and screwing in to the metal underneath. This is not possible on the Eldo as the package shelf reinforcement under the center won’t let this happen. So I had to modify the bracket to sit flush on the package shelf, and add two holes to the shelf to get the screws through. They screw right into the package shelf reinforcement.

The next step was wiring. It is not as simple as tapping a brake light wire and running across the package shelf to the light. Since the Eldos tail lights do everything- brake, signal and hazard, just tapping a wire would cause the center light to flash with the signals or hazard. GM rectified this by using a different brake switch to prevent backfeeding. See the original gray switch, with an in and out, and the new beige one, with a supply, and two isolated outputs. This puts the 3rd brake light (acronym: CHMSL “Center High Mount Stoplight) on its own branch-but also means that you have to home run a wire all the way to it. The wire chase made quick work of this however. I had a pretty long link of 3rd brake light harness, but not quite enough to make it to the front of the car. I put another PED connector of the same kind that I used on the sail panels to join this blue wire I ran from the switch underneath the drivers side rear seat arm rest, which is accessible by removing the ash tray if need be. The stock package shelf reinforcement actually ended up being drilled for the wiring, so I’m not sure if this was something that was in the works for the Eldo.

The version of the brake switch I used allowed me to keep the cruise control connector, and only change the brake light connector itself (part 12117354). I wanted to keep this as non-invasive as possible as I hate being upside down under the dash (though I see to find myself in that position a lot…) I will search around for the part number for the brake light switch itself.

The last trick I wanted to pull before I put the interior back together was to replace the horrible rearview mirror. I forgot how bad these things were (or more like, no one ever noticed before there were LED headlights on other people’s cars that are tall enough to be flush with your back window) but it seems like the mirror was good for one thing; blindness. They have two settings-blindingly bright where others headlights fry your retinas at night, or completely blind, where you can’t see a thing behind you.

My daily driver has a great auto dimming mirror that still lets you see everything without blinding you, made by Gentex. About the same size as the Eldo rearview. I was casually browsing their offerings to see what kind of money we were talking, when I noticed they offered an upgraded unit as compared to the one installed on my car-one with an LED compass feature that was *drumroll* amber colored! Just like the center stack on the Eldorado! So needless to say, the project was underway quickly.

Wired it in cleanly to an existing ignition power on the fuse box

I had to buy a new button to mount it, stock Eldo one was too small to hold it. Check out the dashboard illustration on the glue I bought to stick it on with!

And here it is mounted up!

I am super happy with the mirror. It works great and is a really close match to the amber on the center stack. They even have the same segment check timing when you turn the ignition on Unfortunately it does not dim with the rest of the dash panel, so that’s a letdown, but if desired you can turn the compass off if you wanted to dim everything all the way as I like to do when I’m out of the city on a dark road.

Now, you may notice that the visors are all kinds of messed up. Progress has a price I guess. My long-fought for 1988 Deville visors are NG with the new headliner board-they’re just too big and interfere with the bump out for the map light. I wish I would have known as I could have easily shrunk this bump out when I was doing surgery on the board but its too late now. I’m at a crossroads of reinstalling my old red Eldo visors with known good arms swapped into them (which are probably super faded next to the new material but are impossible to reupholster right) or finding another late 80s more robust GM visor and reupholstering/swapping them in.

I still have more stuff to add to this which may come tomorrow as my fingers are about to fall off!

P&OC GP11 by FlyinPhotog

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Accepted by Tony Hoffarth

The 2006 comedy "Accepted" was shot using locations over a wide area of the Greater L.A. and Orange Counties.

The Veteran's Hospital Campus in North Hills was the location used as the fictitious South Harmon Institute of Technology, also known as SHIT. I would have loved to take some photos of the walled in courtyard that was seen in most of the film, but there was a large construction crew in and around the building so the photo op wasn't there. They appear to be repurposing the building for a Veteran's Housing Complex.

Also seen in "Halloween 2", "Halloween (2007)", and "Sons of Anarchy".

by Curiouser*Curiouser

Donation Information:

If you would like to help those affected by Wednesday's storms, the American Red Cross is accepting donations in a couple of ways.

Make out your check to "American Red Cross - Neighbors in Need", and mail it to:

American Red Cross - Neighbors in Need

300 Chase Park South

Hoover Alabama 35244

If you prefer to make a donation on-line, please click here to visit alredcross.org

-To apply for federal disaster assistance online, go to www.disasterassistance.gov

-To apply over the phone, call 1-800-621-3362 between the hours of 7am and 10 pm.

-The United Way has set up a hotline to help victims find low cost temporary housing. Call 211 for more details.

Volunteer Information:

-United Way's Hands on Birmingham - www.handsonbirmingham.org

-Volunteers in Tuscaloosa are asked to register at St. Matthias Episcopal Church on Skyland Boulevard

-Volunteers in Calhoun County must register at the Ohatchee Police Department

-Volunteers in Concord must register at the YMCA on 4th Avenue South

-Webster's Chapel leaders are looking for volunteers with vehicles who can distribute supplies to tornado victims. Volunteers should go to the Webster's Chapel Fire Station

Drop off Locations:

-Harvest Church in Northport is accepting donations for tornado survivors

-Christian Service Mission at 3600 3rd Ave South is accepting personal care items, baby supplies, and other items of basic need

-First Baptist Church Trussville is a drop off point for donations Monday through Friday 8am to 6pm

-Church of the Highlands on Grants Mill Road is accepting items of basic need

-Mt. Zion Baptist Church in Alexandria is collecting donations of bathing supplies

-Clear Branch United Methodist Church in Argo is a drop off location from 8am to 4pm Monday through Friday

-Mark Ferrier Ministries has a drop off point at 97.7 Fox FM radio in Jasper

-Alabaster First United Methodist Church accepting donations for storm survivors at Restore Building behind the church

-Holy Faith Temple is accepting donations for tornado survivors in Childersburg

-Central Baptist Church of Jasper is collecting supplies for victims in Cordova.

-McAlpine Recreation Center at 1115 Avenue F in Ensley is now a drop off point

-108 Haynes Street in Talladega is collecting donations for survivors in East Alabama

-East Birmingham Church of God on First Avenue North is collecting supplies

-All Books-A-Million stores are collecing monetary donations for the Salvation Army

-East Birmingham Church of God in Christ on 1st Avenue is collecting supplies

-Aldrich Assembly of God is collecting relief supplies at Lucky's Market in Montevallo and Sammy's Fresh Market in Wilsonville.

-Vance town community center is collecting donations for survivors in Vance

-Helena Cumberland Presbyterian Church is accepting donations all week from 9am until 6pm.

-Donations in Calhoun County may be dropped off at Eagle Point Baptist Church in Jacksonville and Word Alive Church in Coldwater.

-Jasper Jaycees are accepting donated items at the fairgrounds on Airport Road. Cash donations can be made at Bank of Walker County. Call 205-221-3928 for more info.

-Hardin's Chapel Church in Ragland is an official EMA site

-Cullman county donation locations: Eagle Point Church, Isaiah 58-Word Alive Church, Piedmont Benevolence and Salvation Army

-UAB is holding blood drives at the North Pavillion from 10am to 5pm Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday. 7am to 2pm Tuesday and Friday

Places to pick up items or get help:

-People with disabilities who have lost medication or equipment can call 205-251-2223 ext 102

-United Way has set up a hotline to help victims find low cost temporary housing - call 211

-There will be a physician on site and medicine available at Scott School through Saturday from 7am to 7pm

-Tornado survivors in Hale and Greene counties can get help at Springfield United Methodist Church in Eutaw and at Johnson Hill United Methodist Church in Union

-Toiletries and clothing are available for pick up at Plum Grove Baptist Church in Tuscaloosa. If you need transportation, call 205-292-5836

-Food and water stations for victims are set up at the Leland Shopping Center, Forest Lake Baptist relief center and Skyland Elementary.

-Aldridge Community Missionary Baptist Church in Parrish has food, formula, clothes and water for any storm survivors who need help.

-Victims in St. Clair County can get food, water and other supplies at the Shoal Creek Community Center.

-Tarps available in St. Clair County at Odenville Fire Department, Pell City Fire Station One, Reiverside Fire Department

-The Salvation Army has set up mobile canteen operations in Forest Lake, Holt High School and on 15th Street in Alberta City.

-Tornado victims in Hale and Greene Counties can get help at Springfield United Methodist Church in Eutaw and at Johnson Hill United Methodist Church in Union.

-The Masonic Lodge in Pleasant Grove is serving meals and distributing supplies to tornado victims.

-Bethel Baptist Church in Pratt City is providing food and shelter to tornado survivors in that community

-Food, water and other supplies are available at Pleasant Ridge Baptist Church in Hueytown.

-The Red Cross has opened feeding stations at Oak Grove Baptist Church, Knighten's Volunteer Fire Department, Webster's Chapel Volunteer Fire Department, First Baptist Church of Williams, Mt. Olive Volunteer Fire Department in Ohatchee and the Ellis Community Fire Department.

-Hardin's Chapel Church in Ragland is an official EMA site

-Free first aid station is open in Pleasant Grove from 9am to 6pm at 615 Pleasant Grove Road Monday through Friday

-Free medical clinic at Scott School in Pratt City 7am to 7pm

Shelters:

-Bethel Baptist Church in Pratt City is providing food and shelter to tornado victims in that community.

-The American Red Cross has set up shelters at the Belk Center in Tuscaloosa, First Baptist Church in Hanceville, the Boutwell Auditorium in Birmingham, the Civic Center in Cullman and First United Methodist Church in Springville.

-American Red Cross shelter in St. Clair County is at Greensport Baptist Church in Ashville

Insurance office locations:

-Allstate Insurance has mobile claims centers set up at the Lowe's in Bessemer, the Winn-Dixie at River Square Plaza in Hueytown and the K-Mart on Skyland Boulevard in Tuscaloosa.

-State Farm has centers set up at Lowe's in Cullman, Tuscaloosa, Bessemer and Fultondale.

-ALFA has centers at the Save-a-Lot in Cullman and the ALFA Service Center in Gadsden.

-Farmers Insurance has centers at Home Depot in Tuscaloosa, the Forest Square Shopping Center in Forestdale, and the Farmers district offices in Vestavia Hills and Pell City.

Misc:

-A battery charging station is set up at the Walmart in Tuscaloosa. Flash lights are also being given away while supplies last.

-If you have loved ones who are still missing in the Birmingham area, call 205-787-1487 or 205-787-1488.

-Greater Birmingham Humane Society lost and found pet hotline open 8am to 5pm daily: 205-397-8534. Hotline is for Jefferson and Tuscaloosa counties

-Official FEMA mobile disaster recovery center in Sumter county: Geiger Town Hall 201 Broadway

-Victims in Pratt City are in need of trash bags and baskets to help collect their personal belongings

-Calhoun County needs rope, tools, gloves, masks, tarps, first aid supplies and baby supplies

-Some local contractors in Tuscaloosa are offering free debris removal. Call 205-248-5800.

-Samaritan's Purse in Tuscaloosa is providing free debris removal and free tarps. Call 205-345-7554.

-The McWane Center in Birmingham is offering free admission to anyone who brings supplies for tornado victims.

-A dusk to dawn curfew is in effect for all of Cullman County.

-An 8pm to 6am curfew is in effect in the city of Tuscaloosa.

IMG_20160716_151417 by anjin-san

In 1964 my late father, Beaudry Glen Pautz, accepted a job as Press Officer for the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) in Pretoria, South Africa. It was the start of the Cold War "space race", the CSIR collaborated with the Americans and Beau received a lot of space programme material and press kits from NASA. I still have most of those historic documents in my collection. Here's a selection of them.

I captured this particular image in low light, using a phone camera, so please excuse the quality!

Also see this great piece on Time Magazine's special issue entitled "To the Moon and Back" published two weeks after the Apollo 11 landing. Back in 1969 I created a great scrapbook of the landing that I still treasure to this day.

#apollo #nasa #presskit #nasapresskit #apollopresskit #space #spaceprogram #spaceprogramme #moon #lunarlandings #1969 #news #press #document #projectplan #missionplan #lunarlanding #pretoria #transvaal #southafrica #csir #moonmission #spacerace #coldwar #factsheets #2016

France Cannes Awards Ceremony by addadada

Actor Jean Dujardin, right, accepts the award for Best Actor for the film The Artist from actress Catherine Deneuve during the awards ceremony at the 64th international film festival, in Cannes, southern France, Sunday, May 22, 2011. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)FreNCH HUNK JEAN DUJARDIN

By MAÏA DE LA BAUME

NY TIMES :Published: November 18, 2011

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JEAN DUJARDIN has sung in a fictitious boy band, played a megalomaniac surfer and parodied James Bond. In other words, he’s known for lowbrow humor that often leads to outsize box-office totals. So when this French comic actor won this prestigious best actor prize at the Cannes Film Festival in May, it’s safe to say that jaws dropped.

At a festival dominated by news of “The Tree of Life” and “Melancholia,” few critics would have predicted that a comedian could win a prize and the international recognition that went with it. Mr. Dujardin’s imitations and spoofs, while memorable, do not match the traditional criteria of the Cannes jury, which typically favors performances in social dramas and tragedies.

But Mr. Dujardin’s turn in “The Artist” as George Valentin, a suave lighthearted star of Hollywood silent pictures who falls into depression and oblivion after the rise of talkies, doesn’t fit neatly into any categories, nor does the movie, a largely dialogueless black-and-white homage to early films.

Reviews from Cannes were effusive. Calling the movie “a surefire crowd pleaser and a magnificent piece of filmmaking,” Geoffrey Macnab of The Independent in Britain, heaped praise on its lead: “Dujardin’s performance is a revelation. He has the carefree quality and the athleticism of a Fairbanks in his pomp.” The Los Angeles Times critic Kenneth Turan charted the film’s rise from underdog to festival darling, concluding, “The Oscar drums have started to beat louder.”

But as Cannes was unfolding, Mr. Dujardin, one of the best-paid stars of French cinema, was racked with anxiety about his chances on the day of the ceremony, he admitted in a recent interview. That may have accounted for his reaction to his win. A beaming Mr. Dujardin knelt at the foot of Robert De Niro, the jury president, performed a brief shuffle step, cursed in excitement, apologized and concluded his acceptance speech with, “Now I’m going to shut up, because apparently it works pretty well for me.”

“I didn’t want to go,” Mr. Dujardin recalled in the interview, sipping coffee at a hipster hangout in the bustling Ninth Arrondissement. Mr. Dujardin, in jeans and meticulous stubble, was outspoken and easygoing in person, willing to admit, “I felt relieved because people didn’t know me and had judged me only on my performance.”

The film, set for release in the United States on Nov. 25, was directed by Michel Hazanavicius and is intended to be shown in the 1:33 aspect ratio — that is, the format of silent movies, not the widescreen ratio prevalent today.

In a statement Mr. Hazanavicius said that he enjoyed working with Mr. Dujardin because his facial expressions and body language “fit into close-ups as well as into wide shots.”

“Few actors are good in both,” Mr. Hazanavicius added.

For the role Mr. Dujardin, who doesn’t speak English and had visited the United States only a few times before, lived in Hollywood for three months (the film was shot at the Warner Brothers lot in Burbank) wore a thin mustache to resemble Clark Gable and learned shuffle steps. He watched countless old silents to decipher their secrets, including many featuring, yes, Douglas Fairbanks. “I realized that dialogues were a burden,” he said. “What I could say with my body I didn’t need to express it by talking.”

Perhaps more surprising, he was also inspired by the Italian actor Vittorio Gassman’s manipulative playboy in “The Easy Life” (1962) and his caricatures in “I Mostri” (1963), a satire of Italian society. “In both movies Gassman completely fills the room,” Mr. Dujardin said. “And I needed to fill the room.”

But here Mr. Dujardin is often described as the incarnation of French humor, known for some of the funniest punch lines of contemporary cinema. With similar charm and reliance on body language he has been compared to the movie legend Jean-Paul Belmondo, with whom he performed in 2008 in “A Man and His Dog.”

Born in a Parisian suburb in 1972, he is the youngest of four brothers in a middle-class family. Mr. Dujardin studied drawing and worked as a locksmith “to make ends meet,” he said, then took up acting at 24, inventing spoofs and characters and performing at bars and cabarets. “I impersonated, poked fun and entertained myself,” he said. “I had the impression that I had done this all my life.”

His brother Marc, a lawyer who is also Mr. Dujardin’s occasional agent, remembered him as “a practical joker who amused even his own family.”

Marc Dujardin added, “We were caught by surprise when we learned that he was nominated for Cannes.”

In 1998 Jean Dujardin’s performance as one of the members of a parody boy-band called Nous C Nous (Us Is Us) met with modest success. But his regular turn in a daily six-minute TV spot called “Un Gars, Une Fille,” about a couple (including his real-life wife, Alexandra Lamy) confronted with the humdrum of married life, introduced his cheeky sense of humor and expressive face to millions of viewers.

Mr. Dujardin became known for clumsy, self-satisfied, egomaniacal losers. In the 2005 movie “Brice de Nice” (“The Brice Man”), which drew about four million French viewers to the theaters (making it the most-seen movie of the year here), Mr. Dujardin was an arrogant surfer who tells an attractive, rather underdressed young woman, “Do you know how physically intelligent you are?”

In 2006 he won considerable praise for his clumsy nonchalant agent in Mr. Hazanavicius’s “OSS 177,” a series of spoofs inspired by French spy novels. That earned him a best actor nomination at the Césars, the French film awards.

“Over the years,” Mr. Dujardin said, “my characters made me look better, even more interesting.” But he also admitted that it took years to stray from parts that fit his sense of humor and energy to more serious efforts. With rare exceptions French actors who make their names in comedy rarely switch genres.

When he did stretch, with characters like Octave, a cynical advertising designer in Jan Kounen’s “99 Francs” (2007) or the lonely alcoholic in Bertrand Blier’s “Clink of Ice” (2010), Mr. Dujardin drew good reviews but smaller audiences.

Mr. Blier said it was hard for Mr. Dujardin to play a type of character “he had never performed until now.” Mr. Kounen was kinder, saying that he had picked one of the rare actors in France “able to play an arrogant idiot who can inspire love.”

Mr. Dujardin views his career with an almost childlike detachment. “Each movie is a new movie,” he said, “and each movie is a new bet.”nch Twist: A Comic Does Nuance

Headliner build and sunroof R&R by smokuspollutus