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...workers, many of them sporting pot bellies and making little effort to stay in step. On the public address system, a man with a deep voice exhorts the soldiers of God to show the world that they are more than a match for the dastardly Americans. Wearing their sternest expressions, the marchers chant slogans of praise for Saddam and swear to die for him and for their country...
...political parody of media venality, it's The Producers crossed with In Living Color, or Network meets Bulworth. And despite its sternest intentions and laudably high squirm content, the movie is often...
...died, and President Jackson Evans (Jeff Bridges) needs a replacement. Surprise: he wants a woman, Senator Laine Hanson (Joan Allen). She's flinty, principled and perhaps fatally compromised by allegations that she participated in an orgy in her college days. If she is ratified, it will be over the sternest objections of Representative Shelly Runyon (Gary Oldman, sporting a cornpone accent and the most preposterously wayward Capitol Hill hairdo since Everett Dirksen's). "We're both sticking to our guns," Runyon warns Evans. "The difference is, mine are loaded." He is determined to corner Hanson with the question she refuses...
Bamboozled is Lee's latest and most telling outrage--a spuming fulmination on the racial stereotypes that Americans, black and white, endure and perpetuate. A political parody of media venality, it's The Producers crossed with In Living Color, or Network meets Bulworth. And despite its sternest intentions and laudably high squirm content, the movie is often fun. Just as Mel Brooks had to turn the Springtime for Hitler production number into a giddy riot of goose steps, the polemicist in Lee occasionally surrenders to the entertainer in him and allows his sour minstrel travesty to effervesce. He points fingers...
When TIME asked Bush why he supported the sternest welfare measures, he resorted to standard-issue conservative rhetoric. "I don't buy the argument that old-style welfare programs are compassionate. Creating a sense of dependency is not compassionate." But why punish children for the sins of their parents? "We never said we were not going to fund children," he claimed, against the evidence. "They'd [still] have health insurance and food stamps...