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...Revealed to the world last month by the popular blog Gawker, the latest in a series of Mr. Cruise’s on-camera antics was made for a ceremony at which the actor received his Church of Scientology’s “Freedom Medal of Valor” (coming soon to militaries near you). In it, the star of “Cocktail” and “Losin’ It” lauds his church’s ability to ‘improve conditions,’ makes use of a dizzying array...
...Mr. Cruise is hardly the best example of a man undermined by the hyper-public exposure of his private ‘eccentricities’; after all, he has had no qualms broadcasting his peculiar views on national television...
...turn instead to another video victim, the archconservative capo di tutti capi at the National Review. A polyglot, intellectual and harpsichordist, Mr. Buckley has never been the media’s darling, or their plaything; indeed, he has become late in life the Jeremiah of authentic American conservatism...
...Buckley’s case, the dirt comes in the form of a 1968 debate with homosexual essayist Gore Vidal (this was back when people other than Chris Matthews were permitted to speak on American television). Told to ‘shut up” and otherwise antagonized, Mr. Buckley lashes out: “Listen, you queer. Stop calling me a crypto-Nazi or I’ll sock you in the god-damn face, and you will stay plastered.” Quaint postwar vernacular aside, the moment, somehow benign on the page, seems pretty ugly on video...
...becoming president of the Harvard Law Review. The project began last year when a group of friends in Los Angeles decided that one of them, Justin M. Sherman, looked a lot like a young Obama. At his friends’ prompting, Sherman wrote a script called “Mr. Obama Goes to Cambridge” about Obama’s years at the Law School and his time as president of the law review. But according to the film’s director, Mike S. Lawson, the script lacked conflict. The solution was easy: add vampires. Along with...