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...Nader liberals and Buchanan conservatives, Bush and Gore may be barely distinguishable: gush and bore, or Tweedledumb and Tweedledull. Their platforms agree on most important issues, ignore many others. But to the evangelical right - and regardless of religious affiliation, the radio reactionaries are evangelical in their fervor, their certainly, their tendency to demonize the opposition - Gore had to do as the new Clinton...
...remember "Charlie's Angels" as it truly was: a pathetically awful bit of TV. Its emphasis on fine bodies, scenic locales and perfect hair didn't elevate it to "so bad it's good" status (a la "Cop Rock"); the show was, to be blunt, a big bore...
...cinematographer John Alton, but its most distinctive quality is the way in which the bad guy, Richard Conte, perpetually outshines straight arrow Cornel Wilde. Conte is charming, determined (his credo: "First is first and second is nobody!"), and very, very suave as gangster "Mr. Brown," whereas Wilde is a bore as his police detective nemesis. It's no wonder then that Lewis loved to talk about the time Wilde (who also served as the film's associate producer) attempt to have him fired from the film. Speaking at New York's Museum of Modern Art in 1998, Lewis noted that...
...that communicate to a lot of people. I grew up on Hollywood movies, and I love them. So I think there is a way to work on that scale and be true to yourself through your artistic vision. The biggest crime I think in movie making is when you bore an audience, and I really don't want to do that. I want to keep the thrills coming as much as possible. I really enjoy entertaining people, it's great thrill when you scare an audience, or you make them laugh or cry. The worst insult for example was when...
...good looks)? First and foremost, "West Wing" maintains an incredibly high level of substantive content. In the 40-some-odd minutes of actual airtime, one finds more quality political discussion than could be gleaned from four and a half uninterrupted hours of presidential contender sparring; and unlike Gush and Bore, "West Wing" characters tend not to rehash the same old generalizations week after week after week...