Month: May 2008

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According to “Entertainment Weekly,” you still haven’t cast Ðìçk Cheney in your film “W” about George W. Bush (a film, I have to admit, I’m looking forward to seeing.) You complain about the considerable number of older Hollywood actors who are Republicans and so don’t want the job.
Richard Dreyfuss.
Hëll, he was halfway to Cheney back in “The American President.” He can knock the role out of the park. And he’s part of a group advocating the impeachment of Bush and Cheney.
Have your people call his people.
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In case you’re still on the fence as to whether the Iraqi war–which between the efforts of ourselves and the insurgents has resulted in the deaths of sixty thousand Iraqis–is worth it, consider this tidbit from the book “The 3 Trillion Dollar War”:
The billions spent thus far by the United States in Bush’s war, if spent instead upon domestic concerns, would have been enough to fix Social Security for seventy-five years or provide health insurance for every child in the United States.
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I’ve been reading the reviews, seen much scathing commentary, scratching my head over the hostility engendered by “Speed Racer.” I’ve been wondering whether others saw the same film that my family dID: 00 The kids’ film that people slam as being too long for kids, yet five-year-old Caroline was captivated, and I thought was thoroughly engaging.
And I realized a lot of this negativism was sounding familiar to me. Too long. Too loud. Too overwhelming visually with lots of mindless sound and fury signifying nothing. And I realized where and when I had heard it all before:
“Blade Runner.”

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To my own mom, celebrating her first mother’s day in her new house (a mere stone’s throw from the house of my sister’s family, including two little granddaughters), and to Kathleen who is both a great mom and stepmom.
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I felt, and still do feel, the media was far too mean to poor Miss South Carolina who spouted gibberish when asked about the lacking geography skills of American students.
That said, the Pace University Freshman Cabaret managed to find a new angle on the debacle as student Danicah Waldo (remember that name; you heard it here first) performs Miss SC’s answer, set to music by Jason Wetzel, in “Miss South Carolina: The Musical” and wonderfully captures the poor girl’s deer-in-the-headlights thought process:“>

So in the last season of “West Wing,” while the Democratic party was splintered in a divisive struggle between two contenders–one of them a long-time DC operator and the other an idealistic minority candidates–while the already decided white-haired GOP candidate, unpopular within his own party because of some of his policies waited patiently…
The President serving the second term of his presidency was busy organizing a wedding for his daughter.
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