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Born to Politics: Our American Road Trip to Tomorrow
By James Grady - Politics DailyAll politics is personal. There is no magic line between "us" and some "them." We're all in this together and politics is how we get things done. Ever since the Greeks invented the concept of politics as what occurs in our public space, ambitious leaders have claimed that their opponents were "playing politics" and for that reason, we should ... you got it: "Trust me." Right. If someone tells you that politics is the problem and they are a some magic "non-political" solution, hold onto your wallet, hold onto your vote, hold onto your children. I'll leave it to academics to argue over when ...
Happy 100th Birthday to the 1911 .45 Pistol, Our Gun of Choice
By James Grady - Politics DailyThis year marks the 100th "birthday" of one of America's most successful and culturally impactive political tools: the 1911 .45 semi-automatic pistol. Yet this is not just a story about a gun. Though, of course, this story stars and starts with that gun. Or rather, our need for it that emerged when U.S. armed forces fought Muslim insurgents on Asian turf that most Americans have trouble finding on a map. As most of us remember -- especially fans of Mark Twain and Rudyard Kipling -- from 1899-1913, the United States fought the Philippine-American War for control of those Pacific islands. In ...
Why We Care About the Academy Awards
By James Grady - Politics DailyThe Academy Awards shone bright lights in my family's night sky well before 2007, when I stood in a Santa Monica street hugging my black-gowned and borrowed-diamonds daughter Rachel and not crying, I did not cry, I did not! as she climbed into the black limo that whisked her and her co-director/producer Heidi to the Oscars where they would lose Best Documentary to Al Gore. And why yes: it is way cool just to be nominated. The Academy Awards had me long before that night. Way back in America's black & white Cold War daze, my father managed movie theaters on our home turf of Montana prairie ...
Our Year of Zombie Politics
By James Grady - Politics DailyWait: Even in politics, 2010 was the year of zombies? Sure, the hot new wonky tome "Zombie Economics" tells how "dead" economic theories walk among us to shape our paychecks, and sure, zombies lumber out of our TVs almost no matter what channel we click to, and sure, my fellow fantasy prose-slingers are flinging new novels about the undead at the dust of Stephen King and George Romero, but zombies as a metaphor for 2010's politics? Come on! What happened to vampires? Vampires are a great political metaphor! Bloodsuckers. Say no more. But zombies? Who are they in America's 2010 ...
Politics in Our Movies: From 'Mr. Smith' to 'Casino Jack'
By James Grady - Politics DailyAll across America this lame-duck congressional season, we're driving past malls or walking down Main Streets where theater marquees offer two major motion pictures "about" politics: "Casino Jack" starring Kevin Spacey and "Fair Game" starring Sean Penn and Naomi Watts. But the truth is, every movie is "about" politics. Every work of art creates a vision of reality and rules for that realm. Even when a movie is not a fact-driven documentary, what's on film are "people" making choices of conscience and circumstance. On some level, choice always involves politics -- and that includes the ...
RIP Dino De Laurentiis, Master of the Movies
By James Grady - Politics DailyArrivederci, movie impresario and producer Dino De Laurentiis. And grazie. With full disclosure to Politics Daily readers, grazie Dino from me personally for my dream career. In 1973, sitting in his New York office reading the opening four typed manuscript pages of a slim first novel by me, a nobody living in a Montana shack, Dino saw the outlines of an even better movie. So, he brought together Robert Redford, Faye Dunaway, Cliff Robertson, Max von Sydow and director Sydney Pollack to create what Pulitzer Prize winning film critic and novelist Stephen Hunter calls the film most resonant ...
Don Draper and James Grady's Dante Reflect Our Own Infernos
By Michelle Brafman - Politics DailySoon my 30-day Netflix trial will end, and I will have caught up on Seasons 1 and 2 of "Mad Men." While time consuming and a bit jarring, simultaneously watching old and new episodes of the show illuminates the breadcrumbs the writers dropped to lead us to Don Draper's current juicy pickle. ...
Political Fiction a Hot Genre
By Sally Denton - Politics DailyJames Grady is at the top of his form in his "What's Going On: A Political Fiction" novella up on the Politics Daily site. ...
Tall Cotton for Short Stories
By Michelle Brafman - Politics DailyMy Woman Up colleagues had much to say when the New York Times ran a short story on its op-ed page this summer. While we didn't agree where the story should run, we did uncover a shared allegiance to the form, and a hope that more mainstream media publications would follow suit. ...
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