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Though politics had been the family business, Al Gore's friends have always traced the awakening of his own interest in it to his senior thesis at Harvard: "The Impact of Television on the Presidency, 1947-1969." The small screen had created a new, unforgiving standard in politics, the young Gore wrote, one that rewards the smooth performer and dooms the stilted one. His 99-page paper turned out to be a prescient analysis of some of the forces that would conspire to deny him the White House three decades later. But while Gore's political career may be over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Al Gore, Businessman | 7/31/2005 | See Source »

...Cohen's talked Cohen into watching Sweet Home Alabama, and he noticed that Lucas looks a lot like Newman, his favorite actor. Sony wasn't so keen on building a $124 million film around an actor famous mostly for Sweet Home Alabama. So Cohen shot a $1 million screen test, which ended with Lucas, in Navy whites, saluting the camera while the theme from An Officer and a Gentleman played. Arnold Schwarzenegger was sold more subtly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: To Be or Not to Be a Hero | 7/24/2005 | See Source »

...Bush code for "he's my kind of guy, so I don't need to get into specifics." To focus more on where the man comes from than on anything he has argued in 24 years as a government and corporate lawyer is not just a political smoke screen. It is a reminder, first, that it is a lawyer's art to offer arguments detached from beliefs; and second, that whatever issues the court faces, a Justice likely to serve for 25 years is bound to travel down legal roads that have not yet even been paved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Judging Mr. Right | 7/24/2005 | See Source »

...scene unfurls, bare and slow, Walker’s wife comforts him before Reese arrives to shoot him twice: he needs Walker’s share of the money. His wife follows her husband’s would-be murderer dutifully as Walker staggers into San Francisco Bay. The screen fades as the voice-over of a tour guide describing how hard it is to escape the prison...

Author: By Scoop A. Wasserstein, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: At Last, Bloody ‘Point Blank’ Comes to DVD | 7/22/2005 | See Source »

...instead I find myself spending long hours in my apartment writing, rewriting, and, most of all, staring blankly at my computer screen as I try to figure out what should happen next. I’m still writing my “treatment,” movie lingo for the summary of your story which you use to sell your idea to studios. I had assumed it would take me a week or so to complete; needless to say, I underestimated the task...

Author: By Andrew B. English, | Title: Not According To Script | 7/22/2005 | See Source »

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