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THE LAST EXORCISM: My Summer Of Cinematic Dead Ends, Fat Chances and Unexpected Gifts
by JOHN MARKS Given the mortality rate of filmmakers in recent horror movies, you'd think on screen camera crews would pack automatic weapons instead of lenses; an easily accessible kitchen knife, at the very least. But no, as we anxiously observe in The Last Exorcism, young shooters and their feckless sound technicians continue to tackle subjects like demonic possession armed with nothing more lethal than a high definition digital camera...More
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Deception in Inception: the Ultimate Movie Magic
In his “Personal Journey through American Movies,” Martin Scorsese described movie directors as smugglers. They are illusionists, experts at creating and sustaining a mood. Perhaps this is the enduring truth of movie magic, the ability to play a trick on the audience, before they discover how it was done...More
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PURPLE STATE ROADSHOW: A Return To Tallahassee On The Eve Of The Primaries
by JOHN MARKS To borrow a line from Winston Churchill, today's primaries aren't the end of the Mid-term election season, they're not even the beginning of the end, but they definitely mark the end of the beginning. By tomorrow, we'll behold, more or less, the final national chessboard; we'll know just how many Tea Party candidates will face Democratic challengers and just how many Democrat insiders will survive to face Republicans; we'll be able to tally up the money spent in these races and weigh the tab against the final results; and best of all, we can start counting the days until the election season ends...More
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Obama in his presidential address Tuesday night: “This afternoon I spoke to former President George W. Bush. It’s well known that he and I disagreed about the war from its outset. Yet no one can doubt President Bush’s support for our troops or his love of country and commitment to our security. As I [...]
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Oil Sheen Seen Near Damaged Platform in Gulf of Mexico
The mile-long sheen was spotted hours after an explosion on the offshore oil platform on Thursday, the Coast Guard said.
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Oily Sheen Spotted Near Burning Gulf Oil Platform
An oil rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico leaves an oily sheen on the water just months after the Deepwater Horizon disaster.
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Oregon City couple plead not guilty in faith-healing death of their infant son
Two members of a church that preaches faith-healing pleaded not guilty Monday to manslaughter charges for failing to provide medical care to their infant son, who died shortly after his premature birth. Dale and Shannon Hickman are the third couple identified as members of the Followers of Christ Church to face criminal charges in the death of a child during the past two years.
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Arts & Letters Daily (02 Sep 2010)
For Sam Harris, a science of morality is simply an account of the behaviors, rules, cultural artifacts, and emotions that constitute the moral life... more H.L. Mencken: ready to bust up the joint with his combative, beautifully sprung, ingeniously funny style, as irresistible as a laughing baby... more "People who loved Sarah Palin are disappointed," said one woman in Wasilla. "They found out that Sarah Palin loves Sarah Palin most of all"... more
