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Opening with a close-up of an eye - a series trope and the very first shot of the first episode - "Previously on Lost" hits a number of familiar notes and includes oodles of inside jokes. The cell-phone ring is "You Are Everybody," by Charlie's rock band Drive Shaft. The office phone is answered with a Dharma Initiative-esque "Namaste!" And if we accept that fans can sometimes be the best critics, the skit takes the mickey out of two of the show's most overused transitions - the whooshing sound that indicates an imminent jump in time (either...
Last Friday I attended a performance of my sister’s rock band at what I can only describe as an “alternative artspace” in Venice Beach, Calif., where the walls in the lobby were covered exclusively with posters and paintings of Barack Obama. In a place like Venice Beach where hardly a car drives by that doesn’t have a Yes We Can bumper sticker, the Obama motif is nothing new, but these depictions of the President-elect had an unmistakable messianic quality to them...
...that?" I said, "Not really." "Well," he said, "The vantage point of the President is at the street level. He can't really see that good as to what's coming and what's going. But he's listening to you. So when you say, 'The U.S. Marine Corps Band is now advancing to the presidential reviewing stand,' he knows when to stand, when to sit, when to salute." And I said to him, "You know what? I wish you hadn't told me." [Laughs...
...does the President's personality or the country's mood affect the parade? Take Dwight Eisenhower. He was a military man with a no-nonsense personality, so it was a very conservative parade. Basically, he said, "Look, each state will be limited - one float, one band and one military unit, and that's it. No big deal." And it wasn't. The parade took just two hours...
...mark this day with remembrance, of who we are and how far we have traveled. In the year of America's birth, in the coldest of months, a small band of patriots huddled by dying campfires on the shores of an icy river. The capital was abandoned. The enemy was advancing. The snow was stained with blood. At a moment when the outcome of our revolution was most in doubt, the father of our nation ordered these words be read to the people: "Let it be told to the future world ... that in the depth of winter, when nothing...