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...last time I saw Sydney Pollack he was doing me a gallant favor. He had become, in recent years, my narrator of choice for the documentaries I produce and write. He had done the voice-over for one of them in the summer of 2007. Sometime after Labor Day it became clear to me that I needed him to do a bit of additional taping. By that time it was also clear to me that Sydney was ill with the cancer that carried him off Monday. I was quite prepared to replace the work he had already done...
...Jury, The Class filled all their demands. It was a praiseworthy "small" film, with no professional actors, let alone stars, which showed up on the afternoon of the Competition's last day - traditionally a dumping ground - but Penn and his colleagues also saw it as a great film whose qualities could not be ignored. Penn called it "virtually a seamless film. It's everything you want film to give you." Juror Alfonso Cuaron described The Class as "high cinema you can share with a young audience...
Those lucrative sidelines eventually became a large part of the FARC's undoing, leaving it corrupt and complacent - seemingly more concerned with spoils than social justice - and increasingly despised among even Colombians who once saw the group as a corrective to their country's admittedly epic inequalities. The U.S. and later the European Union designated the FARC as a terrorist organization. When the U.S. finally came to Bogota's aid in 2000 with the multi-billion-dollar Plan Colombia, a counter-insurgency mission disguised as a drug-interdiction project, Colombia's once laughable military began knocking the FARC...
...Friday before the 2004 presidential election, Osama bin Laden released a videotape slamming George W. Bush, which more than a few people took as a tacit endorsement of John Kerry. The CIA saw it differently, though. According to Ron Suskind's fine book, The One Percent Doctrine, Deputy Director John McLaughlin said, "Bin Laden certainly did a nice favor today for the President." It seemed obvious to the top CIA analysts that bin Laden wanted to keep Bush - who had let the terrorists off the hook in Afghanistan and launched the war in Iraq, a great recruiting tool...
...1950s and '60s were prickly outsiders, scornful of the high and mighty. When Mort Sahl sat on a nightclub stool and took out his newspaper to deconstruct the day's headlines, or Lenny Bruce lashed out, in X-rated language, at the political and moral hypocrisy he saw around him, they hardly expected, or wanted, the targets of their satire to show up onstage at the hungry i and join in the laughs...