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Tulalip Tribes donate record $5.5 million in grants | HeraldNet.com - Local news

TULALIP -- The word "potlatch" means "to give" or "gift."

It's
also the name of an ancient tradition practiced by the Coast Salish
people, when families invited guests for a feast and shared what they
had.

The Tulalip tribal members are continuing this tradition in a new way.

The
tribes' charitable donations program gave away a record $5.5 million
worth of grants this year to more than 300 nonprofit organizations.

"When
goodwill comes to a family, at some point, they re-distribute that for
the whole community," Tulalip Tribes Chairman Mel Sheldon said. "We've
been very fortunate to have goodwill."

To
celebrate community service and recognize nonprofits supported by the
program, the Tulalips are hosting their annual Raising Hands banquet
today at the Tulalip Resort Casino.

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Production

Killing Them Softly is based on the 1974 novel Cogan's Trade by George V. Higgins, best selling novelist of crime novels, including The Friends of Eddie Coyle. Cogan's Trade, like Higgins' other novels, takes place in Boston; although filmed in New Orleans area, characters in Killing Them Softly make several references to Boston area suburbs from the original novel. The film was written and directed by Andrew Dominik,
who chose to update the setting of the story, saying "as I started
adapting it, it was the story of an economic crisis, and it was an
economic crisis in an economy that was funded by gambling—and the crisis
occurred due to a failure in regulation. It just seemed to have
something that you couldn't ignore."^[7]

The project was first announced in November 2010 when Brad Pitt was reported to be in talks for the lead role.^[8] Pitt joined the project the following month, and production was scheduled to begin in Louisiana in March 2011.^[9] Additional roles were cast in early 2011.^[10]^[11]^[12]
Dominik asked Pitt if he was interested in the role via a text message;
he replied "yes" and the matter was settled over half an hour.^[13]

Pre-production began in Louisiana in January 2011,^[14] and filming was underway by March 2011.^[15]

According to Garret Dillahunt, the film's first cut was two-and-a-half hours long. Dillahunt, who had a cameo in the film, did not make the final cut.^[16] Garret Dillahunt does not appear in the theatrical release Killing Them Softly.

Release

Killing Them Softly was scheduled to premiere on September 21,
2012; however, the US release date was delayed until November 30, 2012,
to avoid competing with The Master and to improve its chances for award nominations.^[17]
The film kept its original release date in other parts of the world,
with the somewhat unusual result where it opened in the UK and India
more than two months before the US opening.

The Weinstein Company distributed the film in the United States and Canada.