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...Flashback to 2004: it’s high election season and not a single Democrat can come up with a tenable solution to the already sinking war in Iraq. (Yeah John Kerry, 40,000 more troops will probably do the job.) Maybe if Ian Shapiro had written “Containment: Rebuilding a Strategy Against Global Terror” a few years earlier, the United States wouldn’t be up to its elbows in dead soldiers without an exit strategy. “Containment” is both a forceful critique of current foreign policy and a prescriptive...
...Glen, who lives at home with his parents in Buffalo. “This is very autobiographical,” boasts show-creator Ricky Blitt, a veteran writer on “Family Guy” and good friend of MacFarlane. Set in 1994, the show is an extended flashback narrated by Glen 13 years later. The pilot begins with Glen and his parents watching police cars chase O.J. Simpson on the news. But if it seems a little soon to be doing a nostalgic retrospective on 1994, MacFarlane says that’s exactly the point...
...contributing to the prevalence of the disorder. “Hollywood may be partly responsible for the persistence of this notion because film is perfectly suited to the whole concept of memory,” Pope said. “An entire storyline can be resolved by a flashback of a repressed memory.” —Staff writer Anupriya Singhal can be reached at asinghal@fas.harvard.edu...
...Killers Robert Siodmak, Don Siegel The ErnestHemingway story, about two tough guys in a diner, is one of the most influential works in American lit; without it, no Pulp Fiction. The 1946 movie expands the action with a long flashback about the gangster's prey, a haunted boxer called Swede (Burt Lancaster in his first movie). The 1964 version has murderous Lee Marvin tangling with the even more venal Ronald Reagan (in his last movie). The set also includes a third film, a short by renegade Soviet auteur Andrei Tarkovsky...
...Number of seconds nominee Ellen Burstyn appeared (in a flashback) in the HBO movie Mrs. Harris...