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News & links to raise your eyebrows & furrow your brow.
New headlines will be added as the day goes on. Stay tuned.
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Mad Casting
If Naomi Watts, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Keira Knightley were your daughters, you’d go crazy too.
And we may all lose our minds in a movie that stars Jim Carrey and Gary Oldman in multiple roles each.
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Helprin on China
Mark Helprin, one of my favorite living novelists, is also a prolific political writer. This time, he’s trying to grab the presidential candidates by their shoulders, asking, “Guys… what do you have to say about China?“
Or, as Bono sings with almost zero subtlety: “See the world in green and blue / see China, right in front of you…!”
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Don’t Do Anything Live
Variety goes to the Largo: a review of the Sam Phillips concert.
Oldman…as Tiny Tim. Wow.
i don’t know if the key to better relations with china (or for that matter the rest of the world) is to increase our military might….seems to me like there might be a few other things to spend money on.