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Looking as boyish as a silver-haired 54-year-old can, Bob Corker admits in one of his latest television ads that he isn't "as good-looking" as his opponent Harold Ford Jr. For his part, Ford says in his own ad (with a grin) that if he owned a dog, Corker "would kick...
...There is certainly no love lost between the Republican and Democratic candidates fighting for Bill Frist's Senate seat in Tennessee. At one point, Ford interrupted a Corker press conference with demands that his opponent explain his position on Iraq, while Corker, during a recent debate, demanded to know how many people Ford has personally employed. Ads against Ford-who stands to become the first black Southerners have freely elected to the Senate-have included jungle drums beating in the background, blonde bimbos whispering "call me" and questions about his faith and family. Meanwhile, ads against Corker have questioned...
...While U.S. Sen. John McCain was scheduled to glad-hand with Corker on Friday, former President Bill Clinton stumped for Ford on his home turf in Memphis Wednesday. At the same time, VoteVets Action Fund, organized by veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, prepared to spend $480,000 to blitz Tennessee with a television ad critical of U.S. policy in Iraq and, by inference, of Republicans like Corker...
...helping to revive UA as an artist-led studio, Cruise will be the latest entrant in an old-school Hollywood tradition. Like Chaplin's original vision, Francis Ford Coppola's American Zoetrope and Steven Spielberg, David Geffen and Jeffrey Katzenberg's Dreamworks SKG (now owned by those baddies at Viacom), Cruise's UA will, apparently, attempt to nurture a creative environment for filmmakers. In an ever-more bottom-line-conscious era of movie-making, it sounds like an impossible mission. But then, we hear this guy has experience with that sort of thing...
...Gets Nervous in Tennessee In the race for the Senate, Harold Ford wasn't supposed to have much appeal outside his home base of Memphis. But now that he is in a virtual dead heat with his Republican opponent, the race is getting down and dirty