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...certainly one of the least likely blockbusters in some time. Starring Eastwood as a crotchety widower living in Detroit's Highland Park neighborhood - a veteran of the Korean War who eyes his Hmong neighbors suspiciously and launches into racist tirades when provoked - Gran Torino was filmed on location in a mere five weeks on a slim budget of $35 million. The majority of its Hmong characters were played by nonprofessionals. In addressing such tumultuous issues as racial strife, gang warfare and urban blight, it can hardly be categorized as escapist entertainment...
...culture trying to feel its way toward the next thing, the new tone, whatever it might be. On 24, Jack Bauer is getting philosophical about torture. American Idol is trying to be nicer to its bad singers. Even Clint Eastwood's hit Gran Torino--in which a racist retiree snarls at Asian gang bangers to "get off my lawn" as he protects a young Hmong neighbor--is ultimately not the reactionary return of Dirty Harry but the 20th century grouchily giving way to the 21st...
...final Gallup numbers for show disapproval rating second only to Nixon's • final smirk-riddled press conference by fails to win over critics of • history of response to Katrina of is brazenly rewritten by • Larry King is told by how much being called a racist hurt the feelings of • question about possible regret by for ignoring August 6, 2001, CIA briefing memo is not asked by any reporters at last press conference...
Harry, Prince of Wales • racist babblings...
...Yeah. I would so not fall asleep. All she would have to do is get up and say, “Can you see Russia from here?” Oh, and Russell Peters is really funny, though he’s kind of racist...