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...shoot off your face" - the mouth goes BOOM! - "and baloney is flying all over the place." The hysteria is spread by airborne sausage skins, baloney balloons, are flying in formation (in misinformation formation, that is) with news that "the Japs are in California!", the Nazis have bombed the Brooklyn Bridge, they're parachuting onto the White House lawn, until, within minutes, "The British are quitting!" and "it's all over. We've lost the war." Finally the camp is quarantined with "rumor-itis," and the cartoon ends with the familiar logo of Fox Movietone News - a cameraman at work, except...
...TIME correspondent Jeff Israeli for an analysis Pier Paolo Pasolini's "Il Vangelo secundo Matteo," (The Gospel According to St. Matthew) he faked a big yawn. Of Martin's Scorsese's "Last Temptation," he said, "You've got Harvey Keitel as Judas saying" - and here Gibson shifted into a Brooklyn accent - "Hey, you ovah dere." Maybe his was just dissing his strongest competition. He knew that these films were closest to his, in setting, rigor, power and bloodshed...
...Morocco, on a pinchpenny budget of $6 million, Scorsese recreated a Palestine of sere deserts and balding meadows. He found actors whose faces, most of them, boast Semitic heritage; whose voices hold the raspy, urgent cadences of Brooklyn, Appalachia and other frontier outposts of working-class America. (Only Satan and the Romans speak with British accents...
...from friends in high places. Former Minnesota Governor Jesse “The Body” Ventura—on campus as a teaching fellow at the Kennedy School’s Institute of Politics—is also the former mayor of Peljto’s hometown of Brooklyn Park, Minn...
...spent time with my daughters, both of whom live in Brooklyn,” Gates says. “And I also watched King documentaries all day and listened to him on the radio. Wherever I was, I was hearing those tapes of Martin Luther King, and I still get gooseflesh when I hear them and I still get tears in my eyes when I hear the ‘I’ve Been to the Mountaintop’ speech...