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Still, the landscape hasn’t changed so much that Strathairn’s arresting performance could escape recognition. In early September, he received best-actor honors at the sixty-second Venice Biennale—a film festival held in Italy, a country with its own right-wing spin machine to worry about...
...seems like a sure bet. But even Pacino in hyper-speed, and co-star Matthew McConaughey, is not enough to save D.J. Caruso’s (“Taking Lives”) latest film, “Two for the Money,” a mediocre spin on the sports drama genre. McConaughey plays Brandon Lane, an ex-college quarterback whose knee injury permanently removes him from the playing field. Washed up, stuck in a cubical that “looks like a Turkish prison,” Brandon’s luck finally changes when he receives...
...adage-spewing stepfamily cavorting on an Astroturf lawn, and Gilligan's Island, the tale of seven mismatched castaways on an island that seemed oddly close to Hollywood. Both shows had a goofy otherworldliness painfully out of step with their tumultuous times. Both spawned fanatical cult followings and countless spin-offs. Both, amazingly, were created by the same man, Sherwood Schwartz ... [He] called Gilligan's Island a 'social microcosm' when he pitched the idea for the show. Schwartz still calls it that. 'I knew that by assembling seven different people and forcing them to live together, the show would have great...
...This Administration has been excellent at politics and spin," he told me. "It hasn't been very good at governance. Perhaps it's time for Bush to do what Ronald Reagan did to shore up his White House in the final years-bring in a team of terrific managers, people with credibility from Day One." Faced with the Iran-contra scandal, Reagan brought in Howard Baker and then Ken Duberstein as chiefs of staff, Frank Carlucci and then Colin Powell as National Security Advisers (Powell told Reagan, in no uncertain terms, that Lieut. Colonel Oliver North, who was running...
MARTHA STEWART, 64 Out of prison, she's back on the front line of domesticity with her magazine, her new reality show and other TV spin-offs...