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...Europe last week. It's too soon to say whether Fahrenheit 9/11 will change the way anyone votes or even energize the Democratic base. But there is a long tradition of American pop culture having a subtle and sometimes decisive influence over presidential politics. Frank Sinatra lent a cool cred to John Kennedy's 1960 campaign, and Ronald Reagan would probably never have captured the White House in 1980 without his well-honed Hollywood delivery. Moore's filmmaking may be coarse, but it is also incendiary and witheringly derisive - and it could be exactly what a generation of young voters...
...this summer's Olympics in Athens were announced last week, and there on the list among the athletic likes of Magic Johnson, Gail Devers and Carl Lewis was the Greek-American actress. Aniston, whose father's original name is Anastassakis and whose godfather was Telly Savalas, certainly has Hellenic cred. But we still bet My Big Fat Greek Wedding's Nia Vardalos is peeved...
...Memory House. Oh, and Spacey begins his directorship of the Old Vic in the fall with Dutch playwright Maria Goos' Cloaca. As that checkered list suggests, some stars use a stint in London in hopes of reviving their flagging movie careers; others hope to earn serious acting cred. Stiles needs neither. Her career has been on a steep climb since her riveting turn as the formidable but deeply pained student Kat in 1999's 10 Things I Hate About You, a loose reworking of The Taming of the Shrew. In her current release, Mona Lisa Smile, Stiles makes an impression...
...prison, that helped the Bonannos become, in the words of one of the FBI's organized-crime agents, "the most powerful family" in New York--and ensured that Massino was as unknown to the public as his rival bosses were notorious. By the late '90s the Bonannos' street cred had quietly overtaken the Genoveses' and the Gambinos'. If caution is a prerequisite to wisdom, then Massino is the wisest guy. His power resides in the fact that you don't know...
...hour of new material to TT the Bear’s Place on November 30. Showcasing their soon-to-be released sophomore LP, They Were Wrong So We Drowned, the Liars descended deeper into experimental rock without fully leaving behind the Gang of Four aesthetic that won them such cred with their debut, They Threw Us All in a Trench and Put a Monument...