The first Obama-McCain debate is on Friday, 9.26, at 9 pm eastern — eight days hence. A foreign policy focus, I’m hearing, because the Obama team didn’t want to get into domestic-cultural stuff at a debate held in Mississippi. Twitter.com and current.com are trying to get everyone to post twitters during the debate. Current is promising to “broadcast as many of your debate tweets as possible right over Obama & McCain, in real time, on our live broadcast.”
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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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