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Long-time talk show host Phil Donahue wants America to take a long look at what the Iraq War is doing to its young men and women. Body of War, which Donahue produced and co-directed with Ellen Spiro, and which airs tonight on the Sundance Channel in honor of Veterans Day, tells the story of Tomas Young, a formerly gung-ho soldier who was paralyzed after less than a week in Iraq. Donahue spoke with TIME about getting kicked off MSNBC, why Iraq war movies are not a draw, and the death of the word "liberal...
...might be able to get. I thought people would watch me because I was different. Silly goose. We turned out to be a big embarrassment to MSNBC. In October 2002, if you were a board member of General Electric, you didn't want a retired, gray-haired talk show host popping off against this war or this president. It wasn't good for business. If you were against the war, you risked being called liberal. And if your cable channel was called liberal, you panicked...
...general manager of Veritas Records.The winners of the fall round automatically qualify for the spring Battle of the Bands, which will pit acts from eight different schools in Rock Hard, a competition run in a joint venture between Veritas Records and Rolling Stone magazine. MTV will host news spots in the spring battle, which will span five night clubs and two and a half months. Crump said the winners were chosen based on online votes—which indicate the scope of a group’s fan base—and the input of judge Ethan B. Schiffres...
...designed to replace diseased hearts entirely, but to assist impaired function and bridge heart patients to transplant. Other total artificial hearts, meanwhile, such as the U.S.-developed AbioCor and a prototype being tested by MagScrew, have not successfully modulated beating and pulse according to the physical needs of the host...
...more at work in “Synecdoche” than can be readily explained. Beyond the Brechtian overtones of its self-referential theater, aspects of magical realism abound, tempered but not undernourished. Transposition of a diary across time and space, animate flower tattoos that whither along with their host, and a burning house whose inhabitants tolerate and ignore it for decades all play roles in “Synecdoche, New York.” The film is alive, changing and renewing itself, presumably with successive viewings, in a way that “Eternal Sunshine?...