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...Feel Free" succeeds in any decade, while Frank Sinatra could croon names from the phone book and still make it sound mellifluous. Unfortunately, the producers have tried to put cast member Little Steven onto one selection, "Inside of Me", and he sounds like a poor man's Bob Dylan (who incidentally appears on "Gotta Serve Somebody," but is crushed by the weight of excessive percussion). Similarly, the Eurythmic's "I've Tried Everything," from their post-reunion days, seems entirely out of place. The good seems to cancel out the bad, and the result is middling success...
...hype, even after having seen it. In other words, if you "tell" a voter over and over that you have a good film, well, then, it must be a good film. And no other studio has exploited this minor "flaw" in the system like Miramax. Miramax honchos Harvey and Bob Weinstein know that publicity is the key to everything in the movie business. So every year, they pick one of their films to sell and they shove it down Academy members' throats repeatedly until it becomes a surefire nominee. In past years, it hasn't been especially controversial or noticeable...
...rely even more, since the bulk of the upcoming primaries will be restricted to registered party members. Nevertheless, in states like New York, both GOP candidates could benefit politically by distancing themselves from the religious far right. Even Bush, in the wake of critical attacks regarding his appearance at Bob Jones University, recently wrote an apologetic letter to Cardinal John O'Connor, the leader of New York's Catholics...
...case of too little, too late. "The Bob Jones appearance showed a surprising lack of appreciation for the way that campaigning has changed," says TIME Washington correspondent Jay Carney. "You can't narrow-cast a message for a target audience anymore and think that other audiences won't find out about it. The Bush camp thought they could go after Christian conservatives in South Carolina and the rest of the country wouldn't notice. They were wrong...
...political analysts. While Catholics make up a smaller voting block among California Republicans, Bush was previously expected to woo a large chunk of moderate Latinos into the GOP fold in the Golden State's general election - a prospect greatly damaged by the incident. In addition to the fact that Bob Jones has described Catholicism as a satanic cult, the school outlaws interracial dating - an issue unlikely to play well in immigrant-heavy New York and California...