John Gorenfeld has the trailer for Oliver Stone's W.
I'm of two minds about Stone: The historian in me is appalled by his treatment of, shall we say, facts (see: JFK) but the artist in me thinks he's a pretty darn good (if wildly inconsistent) filmmaker.
At any rate, W ought to be...interesting.
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Right-winger extraordinaire Ben Stein - famous for Ferris Bueller's Day Off and a little-watched basic cable game show - recently made a "documentary" called Expelled (not going to provide link) which is really an extended hysterical screed against evolution. Various "real" scientists were interviewed for it under false pretenses including blog-favorite PZ Myers. Here's what Stein says about PZ:
Stein: When we just saw that man, I think it was Mr. [PZ] Myers, talking about how great scientists were, I was thinking to myself the last time any of my relatives saw scientists telling them what to do they were telling them to go to the showers to get gassed.
Wow.
Just wow.
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While writing about something else entirely Nicole Belle drops this into the mix:
Madonna is hoping to remake classic movie Casablanca, but update it for a modern-day audience by setting it in Iraq.
The mind boggles.
I suppose the only question is will it be worse than the David Soul version.
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