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...what Limbaugh called the show's "pro-America" stance. (Among the crowd were pundit Laura Ingraham and Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.) The weird spectacle put a point on a raging question in pop culture: Is 24 just a TV show or right-wing propaganda? Or, to turn Jack Bauer's frequent refrain on him: Who are you working...
...anything has to being the Official Cultural Product of the War on Terrorism. Co-creator Joel Surnow is a rare Hollywood Republican, and John McCain has done a cameo. Dick Cheney is a big fan too, and you can understand the Administration's wanting to associate itself with Bauer's badass competence. (He nabs nuclear masterminds; we get Jose Padilla.) Most damningly to critics on the left, Bauer's means of gathering intel (grab terrorist's finger, snap, repeat) make 24 a weekly rationalization of the "ticking time bomb" defense of torture...
Then there's Bauer (Kiefer Sutherland), who has seen his wife killed, executed an innocent man to stop an attack, tortured people (sometimes mistakenly), been tortured and spent two years in a Chinese prison. Unlike James Bond, who just gets younger and tougher, by the new season Bauer is tired, disillusioned and wondering how much longer he can fight the Long War. His scars are not only physical; his work has cost him relationships and perhaps some part of his humanity. He has been changed and damaged by every compromise he has had to make. By extension, he forces...
...Making a career change that late in life is something that not everyone has the courage to do,” says Laub. The two worked together when Laub was a fellow at Harvard’s Center for Systems Biology, then called the Bauer Center for Genomics Research...
...Jasper Johns and Willem de Kooning for a combined $143.5 million. Geffen also sold a Jackson Pollock last week for $140 million, making it the single biggest art sale ever. It topped the previous record breaker--cosmetics magnate Ronald Lauder's purchase of Klimt's Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I in June for $135 million. Although Geffen is rumored to be liquidating some art to make a bid for the Los Angeles Times, it's just as possible that the man senses a market peak when he sees...