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Charlie Wilson's Democrat War (the one that didn't lead on to 9/11) | 75 comments (75 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)
Re: Dancing on Rainbows (none / 0)
Right. These people are in a sealed spacecraft of their own. And I am not sure which planet it is orbiting.

But Bush comes from this Texas bizarro world too and I find the Herring site to be quite illustrative of his disconnect with reality.

BTW The movie as a movie was old school well done (Typical Nichols) and nicely shot in a deliberately banal manner by my old film school pal Stephen Goldblatt. But I didn't learn much new about Afghanistan.  It was a very good anecdotal montage of the bizarro world of Texas, Congress and the CIA though.

You can't be me, I'm taken

by Sven Triloqvist on Thu Jan 17th, 2008 at 08:31:16 AM EST
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Re: Dancing on Rainbows (none / 0)
Sven Triloqvist:
But I didn't learn much new about Afghanistan.

It's not about the Afghans stupid!  It's about us, the good guys (Democrats), and how we bashed the bad guy commies, despite the stupid (Republican run) CIA, who couldn't manage their way out of a paper bag and ended up giving us 9/11.  (Nice work by your photographer friend)

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by Frank Schnittger (mail Frankschnittger at hot male dotty communists) on Thu Jan 17th, 2008 at 08:43:55 AM EST
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Afghan Hound (none / 0)
Ye-eees?

I'm inclined to believe that it was more a Hanks vanity project, though Participant Productions was involved.

http://www.participantproductions.com/

"Participant believes in the power of media to create great social change. Our goal is to deliver compelling entertainment that will inspire audiences to get involved in the issues that affect us all."

Other Participant productions:

  • The Kite Runner
  • Chicago 10
  • The Visitor
  • An Inconvenient Truth
  • Fast Food Nation
  • Syriana
  • Good Night, and Good Luck
  • North Country


You can't be me, I'm taken
by Sven Triloqvist on Thu Jan 17th, 2008 at 08:52:42 AM EST
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Re: Afghan Hound (none / 0)
(sorry about my bad play on "its the economy, stupid")
I'm afraid I don't understand Hollywood politics.  Why does Hanks have so much more influence than Julia Roberts?  Perhaps your photographer friend can enlighten us?

Index of Frank's Diaries
by Frank Schnittger (mail Frankschnittger at hot male dotty communists) on Thu Jan 17th, 2008 at 09:40:43 AM EST
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Re: Afghan Hound (none / 0)
Hanks costs a lot more and he is an executive producer.

You can't be me, I'm taken
by Sven Triloqvist on Thu Jan 17th, 2008 at 10:29:30 AM EST
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Charlie Wilson's Democrat War (the one that didn't lead on to 9/11) | 75 comments (75 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)