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...probably the most zealous, I was shocked that he was absent from the poll results sprinkled throughout the article. As a tuned-in 60-year-old, I am aware of the Internet buzz about his candidacy. You focused on the popularity contest rather than on interesting if not mainstream ideas - something this country needs more of. John Kelsh, Seattle...
...large, common Pakistanis see no need to do so. As was made clear in the election, they vote for the mainstream political parties that espouse moderate agendas. Many follow a peaceful, tolerant version of Sufism. Most of the country's educated élite wants to keep religion in the mosque and out of government. Yet when firebrand clerics such as Mullah Fazlullah, a militant leader who spews antigovernment diatribes from his pirate radio station, calls for jihad, threatens girls who go to school and boasts squadrons of suicide bombers ready to detonate explosives, the moderate mullahs stay silent. Virtually unhindered...
...many independent filmmakers aspire to be. A critically lauded documentary filmmaker, Miniucchi screened her debut feature film “Expired” at the Harvard Film Archive (HFA) last weekend. Despite her first-time role as writer and director, Miniucchi reveals her technical and spiritual divergence from mainstream film and her acute cultural consciousness.A love story with the soul of a documentary, “Expired” follows two parking enforcement officers through Miniucchi’s vision of a real-life relationship. The characters—Samantha Morton plays a meek meter maid and Jason...
...American preeminence in cinema, rather than films from his own country. LG: British cinema, at the beginning at least, was quite vibrant and important. But certainly from about the First World War onward, it’s been dominated in various ways by America cinema...more commercial and mainstream British filmmaking tries to mimic the American tradition, and not always successfully. Grieveson credits American films for instilling him with an early interest in both the United States and the principles of moviemaking. LG: One of the first films—and this was not even from when...
...What is it that the mainstream media don't understand about you and conservative talk radio? A. I don't think they understand why I do it. I treat it as a business. My definitions for success have nothing to do with who wins elections but, rather, Is the program growing audience-wise, are we attracting new sponsors? In terms of the content, I just come here and try to have fun every day. I don't say outrageous things I don't believe just to get people in a tizzy. I have the benefit of not having anybody telling...