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...sound of exploding gunpowder no longer roars across the grassy ravine nestled in Petersburg National Battlefield Park in central Virginia. But to hear park historian Jimmy Blakenship talk about the battle that took place there 140 years ago, you have to wonder whether he can still hear the blast's echoes. "[Ulysses S.] Grant said, 'It's the saddest affair I've witnessed in this war,'" Blakenship says with a shake of his graying head...
Blakenship hopes more people will come to the park "now that the world knows that Petersburg, Virginia, exists." Civil War buffs, of course, will remember the battle long after Cold Mountain has gone...
...practically every page of Down and Dirty Pictures (Simon & Schuster; 544 pages), an expose of the independent-film business by longtime show-biz journalist Peter Biskind. The book is being released just in time for the Sundance Film Festival, that hotbed of indie-film deals that starts in snowy Park City, Utah, this week. Biskind--whose last book, Easy Riders, Raging Bulls, chronicled how the sex-drugs-and-rock generation revolutionized 1970s cinema--has done some exploratory surgery on the underbelly of the indie-film scene and found it has plenty of ulcers...
Here is a question: Is the country willing to elect a Brahmin who grew up in East Hampton, N.Y., and on Park Avenue, who brings virtually no national-security experience to a post-9/11 nation and who governed a state that gives homosexuals all the rights that go with marriage? How much appeal will Dean have beyond Internet-cafe society and the liberal salons of the two coasts? As he stumped in South Carolina last week, Dean rarely missed an opportunity to introduce himself archly as a "guy from the North," "a Vermont Yankee" or "this environmentalist, Birkenstock-wearing...
...dictate to your local school boards," I realized that he reminded me of George Wallace--a liberal version, to be sure, and without the theatrical racism. But Wallace was about a lot more than racism. He was about the inanities of Washington, the "pointy-headed intellectuals who can't park their bicycles straight." He was a little guy too, with the same chestiness, the same rolled-up sleeves as Dean. He was congenitally pugnacious, a former boxer (Dean was a wrestler). He claimed to provide a voice for the voiceless--albeit a set of alienated Americans very different from Dean...