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...John Michael Hayes, 89, was a prolific screenwriter who worked with Alfred Hitchcock on films such as Rear Window and To Catch a Thief. After a dispute over payment and writing credit ended their partnership, Hayes went on to solo projects such as Peyton's Place...
...memory by his ridiculous, preening appearance in a flight suit on the deck of the aircraft carrier beneath the "Mission Accomplished" sign. The flight-suit image is one of the two defining moments of the Bush failure. The other is the photo of Bush staring out the window of Air Force One, helplessly viewing the destruction wrought by Hurricane Katrina. This is a presidency that has wobbled between those two poles - overweening arrogance and paralytic incompetence.(President Bush in the Middle East...
...enough for Cooke that PBS viewers in America, and BBC listeners around the world, considered him a spirited, spirit-lifting member of their families. His Letters broadcasts often began with remarks about the view from his Fifth Avenue window, and letters from many countries, which bore the address "Alistair Cooke, Overlooking Central Park," ended up in his mail box. The man who knew everybody had the knack of making millions of strangers feel they knew him. That's the talent of a politician more than a journalist. But as The Unseen Alistair Cooke reveals, the man was no rabble-rouser...
...about five minutes. The movie achieves emotional depth, however, in the scenes with Bolt, Mittens, and Rhino. After Bolt discovers he never had superpowers, it’s up to Mittens to teach him how to be a real dog. She instructs him to put his head out the window and stick his tongue out—something he does reluctantly and awkwardly. This moment—one of the best and most understated of the film—makes a refreshing statement: sometimes it’s better simply to be normal than a superhero. Talking about the benefits...
...concentration camp. Bruno, leaving behind his friends and home in Berlin, is anything but ecstatic about his family’s move to a lonely country estate. However, he soon takes a keen interest in the “farm” that he sees from his bedroom window. “Why do the farmers wear pajamas?” Bruno asks his mother, Elsa (Vera Farmiga). The “farm” is actually the concentration camp his father supervises. After finding out about the nearby camp, Elsa forbids Bruno to go exploring behind the house...