We live in a time when our minds, our imaginations, are colonized by any number of little bits of business from movies and television. Some of what we have we share with many. Many of us have “I always have been, and always shall be, your friend.” Many of us have “You can’t handle the […]
The White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner has always been a terrible idea. At its worst it’s demonstrated just how cold and unfeeling the Administration is: i.e. the “comedic” film of Dubya looking for weapons of mass destruction in his office, while actual, you know, human beings were dying by the score for that wild […]
I would prefer if responses didn’t get into tributes to, or debates on the quality of, a movie, but I keep coming up against Aaron Sorkin’s political romantic comedy, THE AMERICAN PRESIDENT, and in particular President Shepard’s genial response to someone stammering an apology for a name-calling rant the President walked in on: “Is it […]