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JERUSALEM: Reeling from Thursday's triple suicide bombing that left four Israelis dead, and an Hizbollah ambush in Lebanon that took the lives of 11 Israeli crack troops, Israel appears ready to make good on its threats to invade Palestinian-ruled territory to root out Islamic militants...
Most antihero movies wuss out. Studios figure that audiences need someone to root for, that the real Larry Flynt, say, would be too unpleasant to watch for two hours. But the TNT mini-series George Wallace (Aug. 24 and 26, 8 p.m. ET), like its subject, isn't afraid to give it to you straight, unpleasantness...
What he means, although he won't come out and say it, is that although the grain might be broken out in case of a truly bad recession, its root purpose is as a reserve to tide people over in the tough days just before the Second Coming...
After lunch the craft service table was again prepared for those of us who were still hungry. There were platters of cookies and brownies from a bakery, cheese and crackers, chips and dip, sushi, ice cream, root beer floats and the Mocha...
...understand such sensitivity, especially since the studio that's distributing Contact is part of the same conglomerate that owns CNN (and TIME). As a stuffy journalist, I can only hope that the discontent with the "blurring" of news and entertainment might also take root in the world of prime-time news programming, in which dramatic music, hyped-up promos and film-noir lighting techniques are multiplying like hostile extraterrestrials...