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...suggestion that Rumsfeld would have used these reports to somehow curry favor over at the White House is pretty laughable.' LAWRENCE DI RITA, former Pentagon spokesman, denying that such verses were used to appeal to the President's religious beliefs...
...pickups. Two years ago TCM got access to old films in the Columbia Pictures catalog. This led to star-of-the-month tributes to Rita Hayworth and Jack Lemmon, to screenings of rare early Frank Capra dramas, and to a fresh batch of underseen 1930s-40s B movies for viewers to discover and analyze. Lately, the network has been showing British films of the same period. Along with stars like Leslie Howard and Robert Donat, shining on their home turf, we've seen important oddities like the 1939 The Frozen Limits, featuring the Crazy Gang, the comedy sextet that...
...Rita Banerjee, a graduate student in Comparative Literature, has lived in New Jersey and Washington and calls the Cambridge creative community particularly strong...
...daunting task of rescuing America from man-made and natural disasters, as well as nuclear attack. Luckily, Fugate, 49, has plenty of emergency experience, having served as the go-to guy when Hurricanes Charley, Frances, Jeanne and Ivan battered Florida's coast in 2004, followed by Hurricanes Dennis, Katrina, Rita and Wilma in 2005 - not to mention the various droughts, tornadoes, wildfires and tropical storms that have visited the state during his nearly 15-year tenure as assistant director and then director of the Florida Division of Emergency Management. (Read "A Brief History Of FEMA...
...criticism of other German filmmakers who've tackled the same subject - such as Volker Schlöndorff in his 2000 film The Legend of Rita - is that they focus too much on trying to understand the terrorists and not enough on comprehending the destruction they caused. Besides, destruction makes for more exciting viewing. Throughout his career, Eichinger has emulated filmmakers who know how to entertain, which serves him well at the box office, but puts him at odds with the arthouse crowd, who accuse him of pandering. Never one to stand down from a fight, Eichinger bats the criticism back...