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...question, they loves 'em their Nazi exposés (The Reader), their civil rights martyrs (Milk), their Nixon (Frost/Nixon), who to the Academy voters is like Bush 43 rewritten by Shakespeare. All three films were finalists for Best Picture. And Doubt, set in a Catholic school in 1964, cadged slots for all four of the actors who didn't play kids or really old nuns. Note to the Academy: What have you nice folks got against really old nuns? (See Time's Top 10 Best Movie Performances...
Bush, George W. • final Gallup numbers for show disapproval rating second only to Nixon's • final smirk-riddled press conference by fails to win over critics of • history of response to Katrina of is brazenly rewritten by • Larry King is told by how much being called a racist hurt the feelings of • question about possible regret by for ignoring August 6, 2001, CIA briefing memo is not asked by any reporters at last press conference...
...Until three years ago, the UAW's bargaining strategy was driven by a "no-concession" policy, though it did limit wage demands in exchange for richer pension and health-care benefits. Over the last three years, however, the union has reluctantly rewritten contracts with Ford, General Motors and Chrysler LLC, often over the strong objections of many union members...
...decisiveness is fine, but it raises the question, Is Clint Eastwood too easily satisfied? Sometimes scripts do need to be rewritten or pared down. Often actors will be strongest in Take 13 or 30. And shooting a movie fast isn't the same as making it move, which Eastwood's films don't always do; they can be both slack and slapdash. Most critics love Clint the auteur, and there's plenty to admire, but his directorial style is in danger of being as overrated as his acting is underrated. He's a fine director when he connects with...
...they're still weak enough for El Comandante to consider the constitutional issue a still viable option. Chávez, a former army paratrooper officer who led a failed coup attempt in 1992 before winning the presidency in the 1998 election (and a special race in 2000 under a rewritten constitution), has benefited greatly from a dysfunctional opposition led largely by leftovers from the old guard that pilfered Venezuela's oil wealth and left more than half the population in poverty; it thwarted Chávez last year only because a more politically adroit cohort of university students...