Yes, of course — George Herbert Walker Bush looks like a very wise and commendable statesman compared to his son, but I don’t know if I can accept a Barry Goldwater-like revisionist view at this stage. HBO is debuting 41. Here’s Maureen Dowd’s chat with the 88 year-old ex-Prez.
“Of course I’m respectable. I’m old. Politicians, ugly buildings, and whores all get respectable if they last long enough.” – John Huston‘s Noah Cross in Chinatown (’74).
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It took me a full month to see Wes Ball and Josh Friedman‘s Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes...
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Unless Part Two of Kevin Costner‘s Horizon (Warner Bros., 8.16) somehow improves upon the sluggish initial installment and delivers something...
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For me, A Dangerous Method (2011) is David Cronenberg‘s tastiest and wickedest film — intense, sexually upfront and occasionally arousing...
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