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Denzel Washington sometimes seems to alternate between great-actor Denzel (like in previous Spike Lee movies) and dull movie-star Denzel (I saw Virtuosity in a theater. In Syracuse!), but his performance in Inside Man is a great reminder of how he can do both at once when necessary (I think he last did this in the underrated Out of Time; see also Devil in a Blue Dress). Nothing he does here is particularly new or revelatory or incendiary -- this is very seriously around the tenth or eleventh time he's played a cop -- but he makes it sing anyway. The whole cast rocks along with him. Clive Owen, Jodie Foster, Chiwetel Ejiofer, Willem Dafoe, bam bam bam bam, four very fine performances. I don't want to oversell this thing, but it's a damn good movie and a lot of fun, too.
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"But behind closed doors, the president was certain that war was inevitable. During a private two-hour meeting in the Oval Office on Jan. 31, 2003, he made clear to Prime Minister Tony Blair of Britain that he was determined to invade Iraq without the second resolution, or even if international arms inspectors failed to find unconventional weapons, said a confidential memo about the meeting written by Mr. Blair's top foreign policy adviser and reviewed by The New York Times."
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U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia startled reporters in Boston just minutes after attending a mass, by flipping a middle finger to his critics.
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Bush and Dick Cheney can rest easy, for now: "Al-qaida conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui testified Monday that he and would-be shoe bomber Richard Reid were supposed to hijack a fifth airplane on Sept. 11, 2001, and fly it into the White House. Moussaoui's testimony on his own behalf stunned the courtroom as he disclosed details he had never revealed before. It was in stark contrast to Moussaoui's previous statements in which he said the White House attack was to come later if the United States refused to release a radical Egyptian sheik imprisoned on earlier terrorist convictions.
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The real news emerging from the March 15-17 VON show wasn't the blizzard of product and partnership announcements. It was that Voice over IP (Voip) is poised to change the way businesses communicate -- and even the way they operate -- in the same way it changed the long distance calling market.
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George Mason (27-7) had never won an NCAA tournament game untilit beat half of last year's Final Four _ Michigan State and No. 3 seed North Carolina _ back-to-back in the first two rounds.
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V for Vendetta/Hugo Weaving/Natalie Portman/Australia/Thomas Pynchon/Ross/John Hurt/explosions/Stephen Fry/Cinema/Big Brother/double-barreled surnames/tigers
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(Also: “ The honorary voting of Stanislaw Lem to membership is the sheep voting the wolf a place at the communal hearth, ” Dick warned Science Fiction Writers of America members in ‘ 75. “ They certainly must be licking their chops back in Krakow right now. ”)
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Oh but they 're perfect. So tiny (barely even 6 pounds each). Madison and Liana. And they 're easy to tell apart as well. Madison has the tiniest bit of dark brown hair, and Liana's the redhead. Like me. I guess when they grow up that'll cause less confusion.
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Senior IDF officers and those close to Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, such as National Security Adviser Ephraim Halevy, paint a rosy picture of the wonderful future Israel can expect after the war. They envision a domino effect, with the fall of Saddam Hussein followed by that of Israelï ¿ ½ s other enemies... Along with these leaders will disappear terror and weapons of mass destruction.
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Vicious and intolerant attacks on the Catholic Church can not be justified by the simple desire of the archdioceses of Boston and San Francisco to be in accord with the universal church and Catholic teaching on marriage and family life. Given the minuscule number of adoptions by same-sex couples that have been arranged by U.S. Catholic agencies, it seems clear that the strident opposition to the Catholic Church's position is driven by something other than concern for children in need of a home.
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The Sound of Young America has the first 14 minutes of a rare 1975 interview with Monty Python ’ s Palin, Jones, Gilliam, and Chapman. They were touring the US promoting their new film, “ Monty Python and the Holy Grail ”, which did not yet have a US distributor.
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Thanks to my blog buddy Caroldee, from that fab blog, and so it goes on, for this story about Chris Daughtry's song choice on last week's American Idol: "I Walk the Line."
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After about an hour of that nonsense, i headed over to the couch, as it was time for the new Ron White special to appear on Comedy Central. I stayed up and watched another rerun of South Park...
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At this time last year the two teams I had going to the national championship game -- UNC and Illinois -- were both in the Final Four. This year, the two teams I had going to the championship game -- Gonzaga and UCONN -- are as involved in this year's Final Four as I am.
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Cimmy rented Howl's Moving Castle, so I finally got to see that -- we watched the dubbed version. * hearts * Howl was very pretty, especially with his Christian Bale voice.
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I haven't read Dan Brown's "The Da Vinci Code" and am not sure I will see the movie, starring Tom Hanks, when it is released later this spring. My reluctance has as much, if not more, to do with an...
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Honky Tonk has been a genre of country music I've found a considerable amount of joy in listening to. However, it was not Buck Owens who helped me find this genre. It was Dwight Yoakam, who with his Appalachian roots caught my ear with the spunky sound and educated me that Buck Owens was notorious for Honky Tonk music. At the time, I only thought Buck Owens had had only a few country hits and was most famous for his and Roy Clark's hosting of Hee Haw.
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(George Clooney and Steven Soderbergh can now start salivating over what crazy, artistic thing they 're going to do with their dirty Hollywood money), with celebrity choking victim Ellen Barkin joining the cast as an urban cougar whose designs on lesser gang members Scott Caan and Casey Affleck will result in several loosely plotted double - and triple-crosses necessitating that one of the young thieves has to dance through a matrix of laser beams. [Variety]
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Apple (the non-musical one) is claiming in its defence that itunes is merely a'data transmission mechanism'and that it only agreed not to get into records, tapes and Cds. When asked about the case, Sir Paul Mccartney gave a cheeky grin and a thumbs-up sign. John Lennon and George Harrison were unavailable for comment. µ
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* What a fiasco in Ukraine. The Orange Revolution has turned into a lemon. This week, Ukrainians delivered a crushing defeat to the forces of Viktor Yushchenko. A coalition between the pro-russian Viktor Yanukovich and the beautiful Yulia Tymoshenko looks likely. Even more likely is ongoing destructive political squabbling in Ukraine.
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The 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne are brought to an end in a spectacular closing ceremony. Slash Your Acne Supplement Expenses with Food http: // acneinformation.info/21482.php
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However, if you doubt Lee's clout, check out the cast list. There's Washington, working with Lee again for the first time since "Malcom X,''dependable Jodie Foster, and rising star Clive Owen. Even the second villain gets a nice casting call with veteran Christopher Plummer.
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Where in the Constitution can one find protections for foreign terrorists? I keep reading through it but I've not found the passage yet. And based on comments from Justice Antonin Scalia, I won't be finding one: No Legal Rights for Enemy Combatants, Scalia Says'War Is War,'Justice Tells Audience Associated Press Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia reportedly told an overseas audience this month that the Constitution does not protect foreigners held at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. "War is war, and it has never been the case that when you captured a combatant you have to give them [sic] a jury trial in your civil courts," Newsweek quoted Scalia as saying. "Give me a break." (link) Give me a break indeed.
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- I ’ m not going to harp on Paul Dana ’ s untimely death in this entry, because we all know the inherent dangers of racing, and the bad things that can happen. But I will say this, and this is not meant to sound mean or disrespectful: Dana most likely died because of a rookie mistake on his part. Ed Carpenter wrecked at least 6 or 7 seconds before Dana got to him, giving him plenty of time to slow down. He never did, and there was no sign of a communication breakdown. So unless the brakes or something else had failed, which I doubt, Dana made a simple rookie mistake that had grave consequences. RIP Paul.
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Some of what should have happened regarding the dismissal of KTRS on-air personality Dave Lenihan actually did happen: Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice accepted Lenihan's profuse apology for inadvertently using the word'coon'while discussing her, and
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Led Zeppelin's Stairway To Heaven the been voted the ultimate guitar solo of all time. The Jimmy Page epic beat the likes of Guns N'Roses'Paradise City and Jimi Hendrix's Voodoo Child to best air guitar moment. The solo was voted for by almost 2,000 readers of Total Guitar magazine. Despite never being released as a single, the 1971 song remains one of the most-played rock songs ever. It has been covered by everyone from Dolly Parton to Rolf Harris. Other tracks in the top 10 include The Eagles'Hotel California, Cream's Crossroads, Ozzy Osbourne's Crazy Train and Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody.
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Not only did Buck Owens pass this weekend, word now has it that Nikki Sudden overdosed after his Knitting Factory show on saturday night. RIP. and Swell Maps was fuckin'great.
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, here, in "Respect the respectable" about the trouble with "moderate Islam" (HT: Kathy Shaidle). For Fleming, the trouble with "moderate Islam" is that it isn't any such thing. He drives home his central point by contrasting the militant reaction of Islam to cartoons published in a "provincial" newspaper in a language spoken by fewer people than live in Cairo, with the global reach of the "Davinci Code" and the ensuing non-reaction from global Christianity. This, even though "the Code" suggests that Jesus "got it on with Mary Magdalene." Fleming very helpfully points us to a recent book,
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Alec Baldwin will, most likely, never appear on his show after Levin called him a "butt-boy" with a "two-digit IQ". Baldwin was on Brian Whitman's radio show when Sean Hannity and Mark Levin called up. What transpired was an instant classic.
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I saw the movie and that rules out the book! The Great Gatsby - F.S cott Fitzgerald To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee (The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger) (His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman) - Harry Potter and the Half-blood Prince - J. K. Rowling - can't
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Josh Hartnett ("Sin City") indulges in a snappy tongue-in-cheek puzzle of a thriller that ’ s akin to eating ten flavors of ice cream. A fast twitch opening sequence torn from the pages of Tarantino ’ s playbook introduces Bruce Willis as a cunning and calm assassin with the gift of gab. Before you can say, "Kansas City shuffle" Mr. Goodkat (Willis) has laid out a flashback murder-filled tale of familial tragedy brought on by a father ’ s misguided attempt to bet on a mob-fixed horse race. The fact that Mr. Goodkat tells the story to his next victim before dispatching him in public hints at the misdirection that 28-year-old screenwriter Jason Smilovic uses to lure the audience deeper into the folds of his angular story.
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Sean Penn admitted (on Richard Johnson's "Page Six") that he does nasty things to his Ann Coulter doll. From what he says he not only tortures Ann's likeness, but also violates it in sexual ways. What a freak.
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According to AP journalist Woody Baird, who's been covering the Matthew Winkler murder in Selmer, Tennessee, the confessed murderer Mary Winkler passed a message along to a friend. That message from the slammer was, reports Baird, that "she was sorry for everything she has done."
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“ Joyce Appleby is professor emerita of history at UCLA and co-director of the History News Service. Gary Hart is a former U.S. senator and Wirth Chair in the Graduate School of Public Affairs at the University of Colorado, Denver. ”
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. Inside, however, the magazine presents an extended interview with Simon Cowell and a few short, uninteresting sidebar Q&as with the show's other personalities. Besides Paula Abdul's vagina comment, it presents no real secrets at all. (Maybe the magazine's new hire will help them rediscover journalism, or at least honesty in cover lines.)
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On my Google page every day I get a little Quote of the Day. Sometimes they are pretty good. I had Mitch Hedberg the other day, George Carlin another... sometimes they 're historical people sometimes political but a lot of times they turn our to be comedians or musicians. Today's was a good one that I thought I'd toss in here: "Times have not become more violent. They have just become more televised." - Marilyn Manson
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I'll have the video up a little later. The media was assailed all week by the administration trying to pass the meme that the press is too negative. Instantly, the right wing pundits picked up the theme. Howard Kurtz, who told Wolf Blitzer that the coverage on Iraq is too negative also received an earful from Lara Logan.
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When I first started watching Dr Who at age seven, it had already been around for fourteen years. My first reaction to David Tennant was "Wow, he looks even younger than Peter Davison did!" Watching "The Christmas Invasion" last night, it occurred to me that he might be the first Doctor to be younger than the series. That's not the case -- checked Imdb, and Christopher Eccleston was born in 2/64, so he makes that title by three months. Tennant, however, is the first Doctor to be younger than I am. * blink *
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