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...through the entire ceremony," Wilson says, "and then got up at the end and said, 'Obviously my film has entertained you, but not in the way I intended it to.'") In 2005, Oscar-Winner Halle Berry made headlines with an overemotional parody of her Academy Awards acceptance speech while taking home the Worst Actress award for Catwoman...
...worth skipping the Inauguration, especially the address. No matter how good the orator, there is virtually nothing new that can be added to the speech which has not come before. The inclination to convince citizens that they face an unprecedented challenge and that it rests with them to create a solution for themselves and for the world, for this time and all time, is irresistible and repetitive. (See pictures of the build up to the Inauguration...
...simple, and everywhere you turn there will be a critic waiting to attack every decision that you make. But you are all fired up, sir, and you are ready to go. And this nation goes with you. God goes with you." (See pictures of how Barack Obama prepared his speech...
...again on the Free Soil ticket in 1948. (He lost.) Teddy Roosevelt, in between African safaris and expeditions to uncharted Amazonian rivers, ran for a third term on the Bull Moose ticket. He was shot right before a campaign stop, yet was hearty enough to deliver his speech with the bullet lodged in his chest. (Still, TR lost.) Millard Fillmore ran a disinterested campaign for the Whigs. (Did not win.) Grover Cleveland, however, was victorious: in 1892, three years after leaving office, he became the only president to serve two non-consecutive terms...
...Obama says he's willing to sit down and talk with Chávez and Castro - but he's not a big fan of the Latin left's populism. In a speech last May in Miami, he did slam Bush's Americas policy as "negligent toward our friends, ineffective with our adversaries, disinterested in the challenges that matter in people's lives and incapable of advancing our interests in the region." Yet he also suggested that "demagogues like Chávez have stepped into the vacuum. [Their] predictable yet perilous mix of anti-American rhetoric, authoritarian government and checkbook diplomacy...