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...nominations, for Charlie Wilson and The Savages (my favorite '60s garage band, BTW), but not for the bleaker, in fact bleakest movie, Before the Devil Knows You're Dead, which got shut out. Charlie Wilson, which comes out Christmas day, is a true-life kinda comedy about a Texas Congressman who funded the Afghan rebels against the invading Soviets in the 1980s. It's a feel-good war-on-terror movie, and it was cited five times. Pointedly, none of the big Iraq movies in a serioso vein - In the Valley of Elah, Lions for Lambs, Rendition, Redacted, The Kingdom...
...Tancredo, the far-right Republican Congressman with such an extreme stance against illegal immigration that, he says, he's been barred from the White House, handles his dying campaign like a bombing stand-up comic. "I must admit, there was a debate I won hands down," he tells a group of supporters he's gathered for lunch. "The NAACP one. I was the only Republican that showed! But I got a standing ovation. It was because I showed up! But they gave me a standing ovation when I left. Maybe that's because I left!" Tip your waitresses. But check...
Good-time Charlie today? Still fast-talking, still fun-loving, still sporting his trademark suspenders. But he does have a new heart. After 40 days on a waiting list, the flamboyant 74-year-old former Democratic Congressman underwent a lifesaving transplant surgery in Houston in late September, and although he's still in quarantine, he pronounces the procedure "an enormous success. I told them to keep me alive till the movie comes out, and I feel pretty good." As a get-well present, Tom Hanks, who plays Wilson in the movie, gave him the binoculars he used in Saving Private...
While he held positions that were not always popular, he was liked by nearly everyone. Tall, white-haired conservative Illinois Congressman Henry Hyde made his name in 1976 with the bill amendment that denies federal funds for abortion. Later the Republican and devout Roman Catholic led impeachment proceedings against Bill Clinton. Still, he valued compromise, made opponents laugh and broke with his party by supporting family leave and gun control. Hyde...
...debate, Tom Tancredo was not represented. Advocates of six Republican contenders pitched their candidates in a debate held in Sever Hall last night. Bucking the national trend, Rep. Ron Paul (R.-Texas) drew the greatest support. Of the roughly thirty students in attendance, half were cheering for the libertarian congressman. The chair of Harvard Students for Ron Paul, Pedro L. Teixeira Jr. '09 drew sustained applause when he defended Paul against charges from opponents that he was a radical. “Apparently being too radical means you're in favor of obeying the Constitution, you're for the rule...