From the WSJ:<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
Small wonder. As Hollywood sees it, the fictionalized stories worth telling about Iraq and the war on terror involve the rape and…<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
From Dennis Prager’s blog<\/a>:<\/p>\n
GW followed a moral course <\/a>and it turns out to be the right one. Imagine that. <\/p>\n
Red Cross Boss Has Toss with Employee, Gets Sack He had an affair.<\/a> No one is endorsing it. But what does that have to do with running the Red Cross?<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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<\/a>: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9\/11 which won the Pulitzer for General Non-fiction for 2007.<\/p>\n
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<\/a><\/em>: Why Our Universe Is Just Right for Life.<\/em> Here’s the article <\/a>in the New York Times that attracted our interest.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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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 … Continue reading