The Hot Blog Archive for October, 2008
Hard To Fight This…
70,000 in Mile High in August… 100,000 in Denver today…
The McCain Campaign Speaks To The $150k Shopping Spree
Today, Ellzabeth “Talking Points” Hasselbeck introduced the “concern over the $150k wardrobe is sexist” lie into the campaign, followed by Sarah Palin emphasizing personal accessories as the issue and McCain claiming – without detail – that at least a third of the clothes had been returned or not worn (what does that mean?)… and all I could think of was…
ADD, 3:51p – And here is a glimpse of another view of a similar Charles Durning character on election night… the guy run out of town on a rail, Senator Mccain… and Pappy O’Daniel, still sweet Sarah Flainin’ Palin…
Weekend Estimates by Klady
So now we know
Why Should Any Voter Trust Her When The McCain People Do Not?
Andrew Sullivan, the single most valuable aggregator at this time in this political season, pointed to it and said it first. But read the CNN story and be amazed
A second McCain source says she appears to be looking out for herself more than the McCain campaign.
“She is a diva. She takes no advice from anyone,” said this McCain adviser. “She does not have any relationships of trust with any of us, her family or anyone else.
“Also, she is playing for her own future and sees herself as the next leader of the party. Remember: Divas trust only unto themselves, as they see themselves as the beginning and end of all wisdom.”
Friday Estimates by Klady
Well, the dancing tykes will thrash the cutting psychs this weekend, guaranteed by the Friday win at the box office for HSM3 over Saw5.
That said, the Saw franchise remains a cash machine for Lionsgate. This opening will be right in line with Saw
The Difference Between The Two Camps
If, say, a Clinton said of Joe Biden, “”Thank God, he’s not gonna have to be president from day one,” we would see the quote and the idea that this is an issue used daily by the McCain campaign to show that Obama made a bad choice for VP and lacked judgment… too risky… not ready…
But it was Joe Lieberman who said it about Sarah Palin. The full quote is: “Thank God, she’s not gonna have to be president from day one, because McCain’s going to be alive and well.”
The quote, even in context – never much of a concern when the McCainers are smearing – still suggests doubt about whether Palin is ready for the job and reflects poorly on McCain’s judgment.
Of course, we have been listening to half a Joe Biden quote for a week now
20 Weeks To Oscar – Do Politics Matter?
Four years ago, it was one of our softest Oscar seasons.
Eight years ago, it was one of our best.
How much does the election matter?
2004 didn’t seem terribly urgent, as the election went. As much as people wanted Bush out in this town, by this time of year it already seemed pretty unlikely that John Kerry had it in him to overthrow the W.
There was something rather retro about the season, with The Aviator, Ray, and Finding Neverland all set in the past; Million Dollar Baby feeling for all the world like a 50s period drama, and the only “current” movie was Sideways, which was, as most Payne/Taylor films are, kinda 70s.
Left behind were Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind, Fahrenheit 9/11, The Sea Inside, The Motorcycle Diaries, Collateral, House Of Flying Daggers, Bad Education, and others
Review – Changeling
Changeling is an interesting true story. A woman in the late 1920s, a single mother with a low-end (but rising) management job at the phone company, comes home one day after being called unexpectedly into work on an off day and finds that her son is missing. Five months or so later, her son is returned
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Here is the new trailer for Gran Torino…
I hope it’s great… but I wonder how big the story can be… and I now know where Chris Nolan got the sound design for Christian Bale in the Batman suit.
And He Ran It… Sold It… As (Racist/Sexist) Fact
The AP (home of the neck & neck poll of 50% evangelicals) story
ADD, 1:24p – What Fox News said yesterday
(45 minutes and counting of me watching Fox News without a mention of the story aboiut the falsification.)
ADD, 1:42p – From the now removed MySpace page of the hoaxer… amazing…
AFI Has No Doubt About Doubt
Congratulations are due all around now that Scott Rudin and Miramax decided to launch Doubt‘s public life at AFI Fest, here in L.A., next week on Opening Night.
The film heroically replaces The Soloist, which after thinking it would stay in place, had to go when the talent just didn’t want to play along with a premiere six months before an opening day.
to my eye, this is an upgrade for AFI and a good, solid decision for Doubt, which will be landing for the Los Angeles critical community a day after both Milk and Frost/Nixon screen for larger groups of press. But Doubt has an advantage in its placement… so loing as there aren’t too many sponsor speeches.
Of course, in the end, it’s akways the movies, the movies, and the movies.
30 Minutes With…Dakota Fanning & Gina Prince-Bythewood of The Secret Life Of Bees, Pt 1 of 3
Timing Is Everything
I don’t want to diminish the significance of someone’s pain or to excuse a crime, if it took place, or the criminal…
BUT… I was listening to Dennis Prager just this morning, listening to the Republican talking points turning to “If Obama loses, his supporters will get violent.”
And lo and behold, a 20-year-old white woman who works a phone bank for the McCain campaign in Pittsburgh was allegedly attacked by a black man in PA
Ron Howard, Andy Griffith & Henry Winkler Go Retro For Obama
Wow… it’s at Funny or Die, but it is kind of remarkable and serious, really. Andy Griiffith seems like someone who would be really helpful campaigning in the south.
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