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...haven?t seen the third broadside, ?Celsius 41/11: The Temperature at Which the Brain...Begins to Die,? made by Lionel Chetwynd, a documentarian whose work isn?t exclusively right-wing (one of his films is sympathetic to blacklisted Communist screenwriter Carl Foreman). I did research its box office take...
...Together, the year?s fistful of contentious new political films formed a burgeoning non-fiction genre: the agit-doc. They ranged from specifically anti-Dubya tracts like ?Bush?s Brain? (about Presidential Advisor Karl Rove) and ?Uncovered: The Whole Truth About the Iraq War? (military and intelligence nabobs deconstructing the Bush war rationale) to ?The Hunting of the President? (detailing the Right?s long campaign to destroy Bill Clinton). They covered the media?s coverage of Iraq in ?Control Room? (a sympathetic look at the Arab news channel Al Jazeera during Operation Iraqi Freedom) and ?Outfoxed? (a searing attack...
...This year?s documentaries had a lot in common. Often they began in a sense of awed outrage. (?Was it all a dream?? asks ?Fahrenheit.? ?How did this happen?? demands ?Bush?s Brain.?) They attempted to demolish the opposition?s arguments and actions with news clips and expert rebuttal. To prove this isn?t just partisan nit-picking but a matter of mortal consequence, the anti-Bush films went simultaneously for the heart and the throat, depicting the casualties of war: interviews with the families of U.S. soldiers - or, in the case of ?Control Room,? Iraqi civilians - killed during...
...agit-docs trace the Bush team?s hardball style back to tactics employed in earlier campaigns. ?Bush?s Brain,? directed by Joseph Mealey and Michael Shoob, dips into Texas history to clinch its four-part thesis: that the cherub-faced Rove has run some demonic campaigns, that some of his low-road strategies won George Bush the governor?s mansion and the White House, that Rove is a dominant force in the President?s policies (Moore has called Bush ?Karl Rove?s finger puppet?) and that he?s been behind some of the Bush team?s sleazier escapades, like...
...controversial new therapy, he may become the first known survivor of a disease that has killed 147 Britons since 1995. After the diagnosis, Simms' father Don read about the use of an anticoagulant called pentosan polysulphate (PPS) to delay the onset of scrapie, a disease which produces similar brain lesions in sheep as VCJD does in humans. The drug was not licensed for human use in Britain - and doctors were un-willing to test it on Simms until Don secured the High Court's permission in late 2002. Within months Simms' condition stabilized, then improved. Five other victims...