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  • Dixie Chicks still ashamed of the president

    Dixie Chicks still ashamed of the president

    December 22, 2006

    MovieREVIEWShut 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

    Profile of a Hollywood blacklist victim

    December 22, 2006 By Joel Wendland-Liu

    The 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

    Dangerous schemes

    December 22, 2006 By Norman Markowitz

    If 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

    Apocalypto is upon us

    December 22, 2006

    Mel 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

    CARTOON

    December 22, 2006

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