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Last year's winners were actors Diane Keaton and Clint Eastwood. The year before that, Kevin Costner and Glenn Close were honored by the Pudding...
...which has been suppressed by the military-industrial-Lampoon-CIA-FBI-Cuban-Communist-AALARM-LBJ-Mafia-BCCI-Nixon-Rudenstine coup d'etat elite (a massive conspiracy organization which has seized control of our government and at this time consists of just about everyone except Oliver Stone, Jim Garrison, Kevin Costner and a few people in Dubuque...
...tells the story of New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison, played by Kevin Costner, and his suspicions that President John F. Kennedy '40 was assassinated, not just by Lee Harvey Oswald but by a conspiracy involving leaders of the U.S. military-industrial complex...
...Costner's coiled heroic presence is one more source of controversy, for the liberal icon of Dances with Wolves and Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves is playing Jim Garrison, who as New Orleans district attorney in the late '60s prosecuted the only Kennedy assassination case that ever went to trial. And, quickly, out the window. The jury found the defendant, businessman Clay Shaw, not guilty in less time than last week's West Palm Beach jurors took to exonerate William Kennedy Smith. For the past decade, Garrison (who appears in JFK as Chief Justice Earl Warren) has been part...
...that yanked a nation out of its cocoon of innocence. For all its cynicism, or even paranoia, about official venality, the film is a call for a kind of informed innocence. Stone says: Open your eyes wide, like a child's. Look around. See what fits. And Costner's summation is right out of an old Frank Capra movie in its declaration of principle in the face of murderous odds. Lost causes, as Capra's Mr. Smith said, are the only causes worth fighting...