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...Dall and Randall Conrad—a husband-wife duo whose 1981 film “The Dozens” won an award at the U.S. Film and Video Festival, the Sundance Film Festival’s predecessor. Egleson was also an early admirer of Ben Affleck, casting the actor in his 1981 film, “The Dark End of the Street...
George Takei is famous for portraying Mr. Sulu on Star Trek, but the actor - who has a recurring role on NBC's Heroes - has also earned widespread acclaim for his success as an activist for the gay community. In the wake of the passage of Proposition 8, a ballot measure banning the recently earned right of gays to marry in California, Takei spoke to TIME about the future of marriage equality...
...Despite actor Martin Sheen's best efforts imploring voters in television ads to vote against the "Death with Dignity" act in the days leading up the Nov. 4 election, the measure, referred to by opponents as "assisted suicide," was passed with more than 50% of the vote in Washington state on Tuesday. The approval makes Washington the second state in the U.S., after Oregon, to legalize physician-assisted suicide for terminally ill patients. The law permits individuals who have been given less than six months to live by medical professionals to request - and self-administer - a lethal dose of medicine...
...Florida, on Wednesday. And on Friday Obama became the first presidential candidate to inspire Al and Tipper Gore back on the campaign trail in Florida, the state that cost Gore the presidency in 2000. Returning to the hotel in Kissimmee Wednesday night, the traveling press were surprised to find actor Jimmy Smits - who played a presidential candidate roughly based on Obama in the final season of the The West Wing. Smits had also been stumping for Obama that day, one of dozens of Hollywood stars hitting college campuses and coffee houses for Obama across the country. As one Obama aide...
...news monster appeased. Web ads were the Molotov cocktails of campaign 2008: quick, cheap and explosive--the more outrageous, the more likely to get embedded on blogs and played for free on the news. One zany McCain ad, made around Obama's summer trip to Europe, likened Obama to actor (and pop star in Germany) David Hasselhoff. Attention-getting? Definitely. Comprehensible? Does it matter...