Friends With Your Ex? Rashida Jones Understands | KOSU Radio ...

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August 3, 2012

Don?t be fooled by the title of Rashida Jones? new movie: It?s called Celeste and Jesse Forever, but Celeste and Jesse, played by Jones and Andy Samberg, are not forever ? in fact, they?re getting divorced. And they have a weird way of dealing with it: They keep spending time together as if they were best friends.

For much of her TV and movie career, Jones has played girlfriend characters who are funny, loving and kind. But when she got the chance to write and star in her own film, she cast herself as a complex character ? a woman who?s definitely funny, but a little more complicated when it comes to being loving and kind.

Jones, who co-wrote Celeste and Jesse with Will McCormack, talks with NPR?s Audie Cornish about acting, writing and the complications of falling in and out of love.

Interview Highlights

On the chemistry between Celeste and Jesse at the beginning of the film

?You start to realize why they?re not together throughout the course of the movie. We wanted to show a couple that maybe is not in love anymore, but there?s still all these elements about their friendship that they don?t want to lose. So selfishly they try to find a way to seamlessly transition into friendship, which turns out to be impossible.?

On finding inspiration in When Harry Met Sally

?I would be lying if I said we didn?t set out to borrow and steal from the best parts of that movie because [co-writer] Will [McCormack] and I absolutely love that movie. We humbly set out to do what When Harry Met Sally did so well. They asked this question: Can women and men be friends? I guess the answer is they can?t, because they end up together. But we were hoping to ask a similar cultural question right now, which is: Can you be friends with your ex? Can you just go into being friends with you ex??

On modern relationships and how we define them

?We?re still figuring out what it means to be in a modern relationship, and it?s changing so much. I think people are feeling like they can be the ones to define what that relationship is, whether it?s an open relationship, or being with someone for 10 years, having children, and then meeting the love of your life after that. Or living together when you have broken up and seeing other people. There are all these kind of new iterations of relationships.

?So in a way, this is a story about your first love. And what do you do with the love you feel for your first love? Can you take it with you, can it still be a part of your life, can you integrate it into your life? Do you have to let them go forever to move on? Can you be friends eventually? It?s complicated. And it?s something I relate to strongly.?

On when she started writing

?[I didn't start writing seriously] until four years ago. I always wanted to do it. I actually just recently found a thing I wrote in the third grade about ?What are you going to be when you?re older?? And I talked about wanting to write movies, which I must have buried deep in my subconscious because I don?t remember ever having that as a dream. In college, I had a lot of friends who were writers and wanted to be writers and I felt intimidated by it. I just didn?t know if I had any gift or voice and I had no confidence about it.

?And then just out of necessity I was waiting around, I was in a holding deal with acting, and I thought: Maybe this is the time. And I just said to Will, ?Let?s just sit down and write every day and if something great comes out of it, great. If it sucks, nobody ever has to see it. But if we have something let?s see if it?s good and let?s give it to friends.??

On finding parts that fit

?After college I moved to New York and was auditioning, and I got one job in a year, which is weirdly kind of good odds-wise. But I was really surprised by how hard it was. I didn?t really fit into one thing. I was too quirky to play a lead girl but I was too exotic to play the stable best friend. ? I would try out to play women of color and they?d be like, ?You?re not dark enough.? And then I would try to play a surfer babe and they?d be like, ?You?re too exotic, we want somebody who kind of looks like the girl next door.? My personality maybe doesn?t match what I look like.

?I think every actor has this story where they don?t fit in until they do. And that?s fine. I still got work and I was able to support myself. Then, when I was 30, I just had a major lull where I just wasn?t getting any work and I considered going back to school. I got some applications for grad school. Then, I got The Office and that kind of changed everything for me.?

On what?s next

?Will and I are still writing. We adapted my comic book [Frenemy of the State] for Universal so we?ll see if they make it. And I just filmed another movie in London. I?m just going to try to play it out. I think I probably have to go play some pretty serious, dark parts. I might need to play a murderer or a drug addict soon because I?ve been so dependable and reliable and pragmatic for so long in my roles. ? I think it would be nice to try to expand a little bit and challenge myself and see if I can do something different.? [Copyright 2012 National Public Radio]

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The New Face of Women s Boxing

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Marlen Esparza, the flyweight pugilist, has spent all her life waiting for the chance to compete on the Olympic stage

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When Marlen Esparza was young, about 5 or 6 years old and growing up in Houston, she watched boxing on television, often VHS tapes of Julio Cesar Chavez, the Mexican fighter who won six titles in three weight classes in the ?80s and ?90s. Her father, David, who immigrated to the United States was a supervisor at a welding plant and was a huge fan of the sport.

Esparza recalls accompanying her father as he dropped her brothers off at Houston' Elite Boxing Gym where Rudy Silva, then training to become a police officer, took only boys under his wing. ?My brothers didn?t like [boxing]. But I always wanted to try it so one time I did.?

She was about 12 the first time she convinced her father to let her go, but Silva needed convincing as well. After first refusing to train her because she was a girl, Silva then relented, but worked her hard, hoping she would quit. Esparza just worked even harder back, winning a local Golden Gloves tournament that first year.

She quickly fell in love with the sport she had been longed to compete in for years. "My whole life and everything about it has been about boxing," she says, and she's not exaggerating. She fell so deeply in love that she has worked out two or three times a day, year after year, preparing for fight after fight, passing up a chance to attend Rice University so she could dedicate herself to a sport that has, until recently, remained out of the limelight.

While reports of staged women fights go back as far as 1720 in London, a women's national championship in the United States has only been contested since 1997. Dallas Malloy, with the help of the American Civil Liberties Union, sued U.S. Amateur Boxing in 1993 and won the right to the first amateur fight, defeating Heather Poyner that October.? Women's professional boxing burned bright in the mid-1990s with the ascension of Christy Martin's career (and Sports Illustrated cover story) and the bouts between "the Daughters:" Laila Ali and Jacqui Frazier, scions of the heavyweight greats Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier. In 2001, they fought before 8,000 people in upstate New York.

This weekend, Esparza fights for Team U.S.A. in the first Summer Olympics where women?s boxing is an official sport. Esparza, who turned 23 on the first Sunday of the Games, is currently ranked sixth in the world, and will compete this Sunday, August 5.

At 5?3?, Esparza is a flyweight (112 pounds). She's also the new look of boxing, at least international boxing, where skills mean more than brawn. Amateur international boxing is not about battering an opponent, but outmaneuvering her during four, two-minute rounds. Boxers earn points for clean blows to their opponent?s head or upper body; power doesn't matter. If three of the five judges hit electronic buttons within a second of each other after a punch is delivered, the boxer earns a point.

Esparza has called the style "noodle arms" and says it's like fighting an octopus. It's as much cerebral as physical. She scouts her opponents, changing her style when necessary. Every fight is her against the world. "I fell in love with boxing because I like getting in the ring and being smarter than my opponent," she says. "When I win, it's not just about beating my opponent, but it is also about beating the symbol of them and everything they stand for."

But years before she mastered her brainy style, Esparza was a wild child. In the year before she began training with Silva, she was sent to an alternative school after behaving belligerently in class. "When I started dedicating myself to the gym and boxing, my trainer said that I also had to do things right at school and work through things with my behavior," she says. "When I started winning in boxing, everything got easier with my behavior. My grades got better. It was tough at home when my parents got divorced, but boxing helped me get through it."

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Saudi women's Olympic judo bout over in 82 seconds

Saudi Arabia's Wojdan Shahrkani and Puerto Rico's Melissa Mojica compete during the women's 78-kg judo competition at the 2012 Summer Olympics, Friday, Aug. 3, 2012, in London. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)

Saudi Arabia's Wojdan Shahrkani and Puerto Rico's Melissa Mojica compete during the women's 78-kg judo competition at the 2012 Summer Olympics, Friday, Aug. 3, 2012, in London. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)

Saudi Arabia's Wojdan Shahrkani and Puerto Rico's Melissa Mojica compete during the women's 78-kg judo competition at the 2012 Summer Olympics, Friday, Aug. 3, 2012, in London. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)

Saudi Arabia's Wojdan Shahrkani reacts during the women's 78-kg judo competition against Puerto Rico's Melissa Mojica at the 2012 Summer Olympics, Friday, Aug. 3, 2012, in London. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

Saudi Arabia's Wojdan Shahrkani reacts after the women's 78-kg judo competition against Puerto Rico's Melissa Mojica at the 2012 Summer Olympics, Friday, Aug. 3, 2012, in London. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

LONDON (AP) ? It was over in little more than a minute, but it will go down as one of the most memorable moments of the London Games.

A young Saudi judo fighter's decisive defeat on the mat Friday is being hailed as a victory for women in the conservative Gulf kingdom, a step that would have seemed unimaginable if thousands of fans at the sprawling ExCel Center and millions at home hadn't seen it with their own eyes.

Wojdan Ali Seraj Abdulrahim Shahrkhani was one of just two women competing for Saudi Arabia at the games, the first time the Gulf state has sent female athletes at all. And she was only able to compete in judo after a compromise between Olympic organizers, the international judo federation and Saudi officials that cleared the way for her to wear a modified hijab.

Even that was unacceptable to hard-liners, who said she was dishonoring herself by fighting in front of men, including the male referee and judges.

The crowd roared as Shahrkhani stepped onto the mat for her fight against Puerto Rico's Melissa Mojica wearing judo dress and what appeared to be a tight-fitting black cap.

The drama was not in seeing who would win. In a competition where everyone else holds a high-level black belt, Shahrkhani has only attained a blue. Her father, Ali, an international judo referee, summed up the odds his daughter was facing.

"They are champions she is fighting, and my daughter, for her it is the first competition," he said.

Despite only earning a blue belt in the Japanese martial art, Shahrkhani wore a black belt to compete.

On the mat, the Saudi looked tentative and cautious on her feet, unwilling to grab Mojica's uniform and making little attempt to throw her off balance. The two heavyweights circled each other for about a minute before Mojica, the 24th-ranked judo fighter in the world in her weight class, grabbed Shahrkhani with a secure grip on her collar and flipped her onto her back, ending the match in 82 seconds.

As she rose to her feet, Shahrkhani gently reached for her head to make sure the hijab was still in place. It was, and the two women bowed to each other and left to a loud ovation.

Afterward, the 18-year-old walked with her father past a scrum of journalists and television cameras.

"I am happy to be at the Olympics," she whispered in Arabic, her father holding both her arms. "Unfortunately, we did not win a medal, but in the future we will and I will be a star for women's participation."

It didn't take long for voices of support to pour in from the Middle East.

"Saudi judoka Wojdan Shahrkhani lost to her much more experienced competitor ... but many are proud of her," Saudi blogger and journalist Ahmed Al Omran tweeted.

Another Saudi resident, Alaa Al-Mizyen, added: "Wojdan remains a winner to me and millions of men AND women around the world."

A Saudi-born man who has a blog called Saudi Root wrote, "I'll walk out later with the Saudi flag around my neck & my head up high as if we won the biggest gold medal in the history of the Olympics."

Shahrkhani's opponent also had kind words, and said fears the hijab would get in the way, or even be dangerous, were overblown.

"There was no problem at all with the hijab. I think everyone has a right to their religion and to be given an opportunity," Mojica said. "This is no problem in judo."

In many ways, however, the young Saudi's story is just beginning.

Back home, some hard-liners have urged her not to jeopardize her place in the afterlife for a fleeting bit of fame on Earth. Others have warned that she and her family could face ostracism when she goes home.

"She will definitely face difficulties (back home)," Hashem Abdo Hashem, editor-in-chief of Saudi's Arabic daily newspaper Okaz, told The Associated Press. "The society here will look at her negatively."

Saudi women face widespread restrictions in nearly all aspects of public and private life, particularly under guardianship laws that require them to have a male relative's permission before they can travel abroad, work, marry, get divorced or even be treated at some hospitals. It is also the only country in the world that forbids women ? both Saudi and foreign ? from driving. Some women who have challenged the driving ban have even been detained.

Recently, King Abdullah has pushed for some limited reforms in the face of opposition from the country's ultraconservative clerics. Women have been promised the ability to run and vote in municipal elections in 2015, and a new university near Jiddah allows men and women to study together in contrast to the strict general separation of the sexes across the kingdom.

The decision to allow Shahrkhani and another U.S.-based Saudi woman to compete in the games is an extension of those reforms.

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Associated Press reporters Aya Batrawy in Cairo and Maria Cheng in London contributed to this report

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With the Capitol in the background, a US Airways airplane makes its final approach at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, Thursday, Aug. 2, 2012. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said Thursday that none of the three commuter jets that flew to close together near Washington was ever on course to collide head-on with the others. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari)

With the Capitol in the background, a US Airways airplane makes its final approach at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, Thursday, Aug. 2, 2012. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said Thursday that none of the three commuter jets that flew to close together near Washington was ever on course to collide head-on with the others. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari)

Transportation Secretary Raymond LaHood gestures during a news conference at the Transportation Department in Washington, Thursday, Aug. 2, 2012, to strongly disputed media reports characterizing the incident as a near-miss at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport Tuesday. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Acting Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Administrator Michael Huerta comments on a graphic of air traffic control during a news conference at the Transportation Department in Washington, Thursday, Aug. 2, 2012. The news conference was held to answer question about three commuter jets that nearly collided at Reagan National Airport in Washington on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Transportation Secretary Raymond LaHood, left, and Acting Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Administrator Michael Huerta, answer questions during a news conference at the Transportation Department in Washington, Thursday, Aug. 2, 2012. The news conference was held to answer question about three commuter jets that nearly collided at Reagan National Airport in Washington on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

A US Airways airplane makes its final approach at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, Thursday, Aug. 2, 2012. The Washington Monument is in background. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari)

WASHINGTON (AP) ? None of the commuter jets that flew too close together near Washington on Tuesday was ever on course to collide head-on with the others, federal officials said Thursday.

During a news conference, U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood strongly disputed media reports characterizing what happened near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport as a near-miss.

"At no point were the three aircraft on a head-to-head course. They were not on a collision course," said Michael Huerta, administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration.

However, the FAA said in a statement it "is investigating the incident and will take appropriate action to address the miscommunication." The National Transportation Safety Board said it, too, is reviewing what happened.

The jet problem occurred Tuesday afternoon after a miscommunication between a manager at Potomac Consolidated Terminal Radar Approach Control and two traffic management coordinators at the airport, Huerta said. The exact nature of the miscommunication was not immediately clear, but there was apparently a failure on both ends to follow standard procedure.

Air traffic controllers at the time had been changing the direction planes were landing and taking off at the airport because of bad weather including several thunderstorms, the closest about 6 miles south. Controllers cleared two outbound flights to head in the direction of an incoming plane.

"There's no doubt there was an error," said Florida aviation consultant Patrick McCormick, who worked in air traffic control for 35 years. He said that when you have planes departing in the direction of arriving planes, "there's no doubt something went terribly wrong."

"That can't happen with a runway change," he said.

Both LaHood and Huerta praised the work of air traffic controllers to quickly set the US Airways-operated commuter planes on another path once they learned they were too close together. Huerta said the planes, which were carrying 192 passengers and crew members, were on different headings at different altitudes and thus never would have crashed.

All of the planes were equipped with collision avoidance systems, but none was activated Tuesday, Huerta said.

When asked by a reporter, LaHood refused to discuss what may have happened if the planes had not been diverted by the air traffic controller.

Federal guidelines require that commercial jets remain separated by at least 1,000 vertical feet and 3.5 lateral miles.

The agency said the landing plane, which departed from Portland, Maine, came within 800 vertical feet and about nine-tenths of a lateral mile of one departing plane and 800 vertical feet and 2.4 lateral miles of a second outbound plane. The outbound planes were bound for Kansas City and Columbus, Ohio.

William Voss, a former pilot and air traffic controller who now heads the non-profit Flight Safety Foundation in Alexandria, Va., said the fact that onboard collision-avoidance alarm systems did not go off is "telling." If two planes are on an imminent collision course, that alarm would have sounded, and that system is very reliable.

"It's kind of like the difference between a speeding ticket and reckless driving. It's definitely more in the speeding ticket category," Voss said of Tuesday's incident.

Voss said changing the arrival and departure directions at an airport is a "complicated situation," one of the most difficult procedures air traffic control does. That's especially so at Reagan National, in part because it's such a busy airport.

Pilots also must adhere to flight restrictions around the nation's capital.

An audio recording of communications between the landing plane and the air traffic control tower indicates confusion as the flight is given instructions on landing.

"We were clear at the river back there. What happened?" someone in the plane's cockpit says on the recording, obtained from LiveATC.com, a website that records air traffic communications.

The tower responds: "We're trying to figure this out, too. Stand by."

The landing flight then advises the tower that the plane doesn't have much fuel left: "We gotta get on the ground here pretty quick," a man says.

US Airways spokesman Todd Lehmacher said in an email that the airline is "currently investigating and working with the FAA to determine what occurred."

The airline has more than 230 daily departures from the airport to more than 70 cities.

In fiscal year 2010, the latest year for which statistics were available, the FAA recorded 1,887 operational errors, which it defines as a "situation in which an air traffic controller fails to maintain a safe distance between two or more aircraft, in the air or on the ground, or a safe distance from terrain, obstructions and certain airspace not designated for routine air travel." That was an increase from fiscal year 2009, in which the FAA recorded 1,234 such errors.

Such incidents might be avoided with full implementation of NextGen, the FAA's program for modernizing air traffic control, said Joshua Schank, president of the Eno Center for Transportation, a Washington-based think tank.

The NextGen plans include equipping planes with GPS technology that would continually broadcast their exact positions, not just to air traffic controllers, but to other similarly equipped aircraft within hundreds of miles. Pilots would be able to see on cockpit displays where they are in relation to other planes and what the flight plans are for those other aircraft.

"It might have helped pilots in the air see what might have happened sooner than they did," Schank said.

He said NextGen implementation has been slow because aircraft makers and airlines don't feel assured they'll get a return for investing in the technology.

The airport had another high-profile safety incident in March 2011 when two airliners landed without assistance from the tower. Pilots were unable to raise the lone supervisor on duty at midnight. The supervisor later acknowledged he had fallen asleep. A second controller has since been added to the midnight shift at Reagan National.

In 2010, U.S. Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner of Wisconsin was aboard a United flight involved in a near-collision at Reagan National. He said more should be done to improve the nation's air traffic control policy and safety.

"Only better training and disciplinary action for those who violate the rules will solve the problem," Sensenbrenner said in an email.

McCormick, the aviation consultant, said aviation at large airports is safer than ever before but that he's concerned the FAA has recently lost the vast majority of its senior controllers. As for Tuesday's incident, he said investigators need to determine "where the breakdown was and mistake was made and provide some extra training and make changes that prevent it from happening again."

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Associated Press writer David Dishneau contributed to this report from Hagerstown, Md.

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