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'True Grit' Then and Now: Political Eye Patches and a Girl Named Mattie Ross
By Suzi Parker - Politics Daily"True Grit" is legendary in my neck of the woods. Before Bill Clinton or Mike Huckabee, there was "True Grit," a 1968 western novel about Arkansas by an Arkansan named Charles Portis. Portis, now 77, worked as newspaper reporter but abandoned the deadline life to become a novelist. He struck gold with "True Grit," his most successful novel about Mattie Ross, a feisty and fearless 14-year-old, who sets out to avenge her father's death in Oklahoma's Indian Territory. A year after the book was published, John Wayne starred in the movie adaption and won an Academy Award -- his ...
Dream Recording (and Playback) Comes Closer to Reality
By Katie Drummond - AOL News(Oct. 28) -- Dream journals are so last century. A sophisticated brain-machine interface might one day give us the chance to record -- and then revisit, rewind and presumably overanalyze -- our nocturnal imaginings. In a remarkable experiment on a group of epileptics, whose brains had been wired to computers, researchers at the California Institute of Technology used celebrity images to explore patterns and dynamics of focus within the mind. First, the team established links between the activity of specific neurons and pictures of different celebrities. For example, one neuron might fire in ...
Hollywood Too Conservative for Stone
By Brandon Barker - Politics DailyNot too long ago, Political Machine had a Hollywood moment, featuring an early preview of Oliver Stone's 'W' script and an analysis on why the director is rushing to get the film done before the November vote.At the time, details about the film were scant. We knew Josh Brolin would be playing the President, Elizabeth Banks would be playing the First Lady and that Ellen Burstyn would be taking on the Barbara Bush role, but little else. Now, thanks to Entertainment Weekly, we have a few more details on the movie, which is still in the pre-production stage (location scouting, casting, procuring ...
Hollywood Leaks Oliver Stone's 'W' Script
By Brandon Barker - Politics DailyOliver Stone's buzz-laden Bush biopic, which the director hopes to release while the President is still in office, opens in front of Texas Rangers Stadium in Arlington, Texas. President Bush, wearing a polo shirt and Dockers, stands in center field holding a baseball. The crowd roars. Somewhere in the background, wearing a chicken outfit, is the guy from 'Borat.''W', which IMDB slates for a 2009 release, will star former-Goonie Josh Brolin as President George W. Bush, Elizabeth Banks ('Scrubs') as Laura Bush, Oscar-winner Ellen Burstyn as, gulp, Barbara Bush and James Cromwell (the farmer from ...
Lights! Camera! Inaccuracy!
By Justin Paulette - Politics DailyW. is about to make his big debut on the silver screen! Well, not the real W. - that is, neither President Bush nor any character those who know the president would recognize. Rather, the ever-exaggerative Oliver Stone will be churning out a film (starring Josh Brolin, right) which presents the president as "a foul-mouthed, reformed drunk obsessed with baseball, Saddam Hussein and a conflicted relationship with his dad." Even liberal biographers who deeply dislike the president have commented that the movie script is over-the-top and inaccurate. The author of "The Bush Tragedy" concluded ...
Stone Hurries to Finish Bush Movie
By Jay Allbritton - Politics DailyThe Guardian UK has a report on the forthcoming Oliver Stone biopic, W., which is about President Bush. Sure to be controversial, the paper reports that Stone is rushing to finish the film because he wants it to hit screens before the November election. Stone says the film, which stars Josh Brolin as George W. Bush, James Cromwell as George Herbert Walker Bush, Ellen Burstyn as Barbara Bush and Elizabeth Banks as Laura Bush, will pose the question "How did Bush go from being an alcoholic bum to the most powerful figure in the world?" Bush's alcoholism and strained relationship with his father ...
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