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...critics' group gives him the coveted Leni Riefenstahl Award for his films Die You American Pigs and America Sucks the Big One. But the auteur is not as popular with "real" Americans. He is called a "fat, ignorant, America-hating traitor," a "sack o' shit" and, by the ghost of J.F.K., "a douche...
...ghost of J.F.K.? Yes, this is an update of Dickens' A Christmas Carol, with Kennedy as Marley's Ghost. George S. Patton (Kelsey Grammer) is the Ghost of America Past, George Washington (Jon Voight) the Ghost of America Present, and an Angel of Death (Trace Adkins) points Malone to the future. From these wraiths we learn that pacifists like Malone would have been responsible for the continuation of slavery into the 21st century (because they opposed the Civil War) and for the Holocaust (you know why). A flashback to 1938 shows Neville Chamberlain signing the nonaggression pact with Hitler, then...
Just before dusk, Stevens read the students a ghost story written by Nathaniel Hawthorne...
...across much of continental Europe. But why care about costumes and plastic pumpkins when you've got the real thing? That's what most Estonians think. You can't walk far in the darkened streets of Tallinn, especially at this gloomy time of year, without running into a ghost - or the story of one, at least...
...setting could probably make a believer of anyone. "This is an old building," the porter at a small local hotel, converted from a 15 century storehouse, told me. "Don't be surprised if you run into a ghost." Several staff at the hotel have reported hearing babies crying when none were staying in the hotel. Footsteps echo along empty corridors. "What on earth are you doing there?" my 11-year-old daughter sensibly inquired on the phone one day when I explained where I was staying. It's a question all visitors to Tallinn could find themselves trying to answer...