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Dixie Chicks still ashamed of the president
December 22, 2006MovieREVIEWShut Up and Sing Directed by Barbara Kopple and Cecilia Peck The Weinstein Co., 2006, 93 min. The new documentary about the media flurry around the Dixie Chicks singing band brings recent American history into clear...
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Profile of a Hollywood blacklist victim
December 22, 2006The Hollywood blacklist of communist and suspected communist writers, actors, directors and others is widely viewed as having been an unconstitutional attack on civil liberties and political rights. Few people understand the basis on which the...
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Dangerous schemes
December 22, 2006If I believed in conspiracies, I might say that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran’s rightist president, was a CIA agent, working to isolate his country from the civilized world and set the stage for a military attack on...
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Apocalypto is upon us
December 22, 2006Mel Gibson’s “Apocalypto,” a movie about human sacrifice among the ancient Maya, premiered Dec. 1 at Chickasaw Nation’s Riverwind Casino amidst Hollywood-style hoopla. Oklahoma Indian actors have been wooed by director Mel Gibson and are about...
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CARTOON
December 22, 2006