From the WSJ:
What if they held a war movie, and no one came? That’s the tale of woe at this year’s fall box office, where Tinseltown’s bleak vision of Iraq has many movie-goers taking a pass. Films from Brian De Palma’s low-budget screed "Redacted" to Robert Redford’s star-studded "Lions for Lambs" are playing to empty seats.
Small wonder. As Hollywood sees it, the fictionalized stories worth telling about Iraq and the war on terror involve the rape and…
GW followed a moral course and it turns out to be the right one. Imagine that.
Red Cross Boss Has Toss with Employee, Gets Sack He had an affair. No one is endorsing it. But what does that have to do with running the Red Cross?
Parenthetically, this is my all-time best blog headline. The word play works on three levels — the Variety-like alliteration, the football reference (toss and sack), sexual innuendo (toss and sack, again). I just had to point that out.
Dennis talks to Lawrence Wright, a staff writer for The New Yorker and member of the Council of Foreign Relations. His latest book, now out in paperback, is The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 which won the Pulitzer for General Non-fiction for 2007.
Dennis talks to Paul Davies, theoretical physicist, cosmologist and the director of the Beyond Center at Arizona State University. He is a Templeton Prize Winner and the author of Cosmic Jackpot: Why Our Universe Is Just Right for Life. Here’s the article in the New York Times that attracted our interest.
