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...John Warner, with his lantern jaw, double-breasted suits and stentorian voice, has always looked the part of distinguished Senator. But for much of his three decades in the Senate, his actual record as a lawmaker was a ledger of modest and narrow accomplishments, mostly related to defense bills. In the past five years, however, the Republican has become one of the Senate's most influential members, thanks to a readiness to strike compromises on a host of high-profile issues ranging from co-sponsoring the anti-torture Detainee Treatment Act of 2005 to anchoring the "Gang of 14" bipartisan...
...Warner, 79, is a key figure once again, this time in the debate on the war in Iraq. The Senate is struggling to respond to popular discontent with President Bush's plan to send 21,500 more U.S. troops to Iraq. Democrats have introduced a resolution criticizing the plan and opposing the President outright. Senator John McCain of Arizona has proposed a countervailing resolution that tacitly backs the surge of troops. Neither captures the cautiously antisurge consensus that many Senators are seeking, which puts the spotlight on Warner, a former Secretary of the Navy and chairman of the Senate Armed...
...movie's box office receipts alone would seem to answer Iguchi's question. (Letters was co-produced by Warner Bros. Pictures, a subsidiary of Time Warner, which also owns TIME.) Through last weekend, the Oscar-nominated Letters had grossed just under $40 million, earning it the top spot during the Japanese cinema industry's all-important New Year holiday season. Not bad for a downbeat movie that chronicles one of Japan's bitterest defeats - one that has rarely been the subject of a Japanese film...
...Sorry, Leo, you were too good. Or, rather, two good - in both The Departed and Blood Diamond. Warner Bros., which released both movies, hoped to snag two citations for DiCaprio, and promoted him as Best Actor in Blood Diamond and as Supporting Actor in The Departed. The Academy took the lead and chose him for the lesser film...
...Four of these five films were nominated by the DGA (Directors' Guild of America) and the PGA (not the golfers - the gofers - sorry, I meant the producers). Iwo Jima slipped into the Dreamgirls slot. Only The Departed is an old-fashioned studio movie. Iwo Jima, released by Warner Bros., was made for a miniaturized $15 million. The other three entries were sponsored by the art-house subsidiaries of major companies: Paramount Vantage for Babel, Fox Searchlight for Sunshine, Disney's (not the Weinstein brothers') Miramax for The Queen. This verifies the trend last year, when four of the films nominated...