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This is not Bush news, but it's a huge, important story. Bye bye, middle-class. GM to Cut 30,000 Jobs, Close 9 Plants Nov 21, 9:23 AM (ET) By DEE-ANN DURBIN[/b] DETROIT (AP) - General Motors Corp. (GM) will eliminate 30,000 manufacturing jobs and close nine North American assembly, stamping and pow...

Damien, I went through the same progression with you on Bound for Glory in late '76 -- first thinking it might be the year's masterpiece (I seem to recall an early Variety review being a rave), then being disappointed in the "great-looking but dramatically inert" preponderance of reviews ...

Well, for once I'll be the grouchiest about a movie: I think you're all being WAY too kind about North Country. I thought it was, for most of its running time, a complete mediocrity -- Lifetime on the big screen. Then, in the last 20 minutes or so, I thought it turned totally godawful. The end titl...

For me, watching Capote was a bit akin to watching Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead -- a familiar story told from a somewhat different angle. The In Cold Blood details remain gripping after all these years, and I think they give the story most of its motor (notwithstanding the interesting biog...

Mister Tee, does a presidential impeachment/resignation in the future look a little more plausible today? Only if 1) this keeps getting bigger and 2) the Dems take over both houses of Congress next year. All word is that Rove gave Fitzgerald new info the other day, and that's what's forestalled any...

Anyone interested in the close-to-confirmed buzz floating around today should go to dailykos.com for stuff that won't make it onto network until the "i"'s are dotted, but seems awfully legit. What's being bandied about -- major indictments; Cheney's office being directly questioned; civil...

The reports last week -- that indictments were perhaps a day away -- were obviously superseded by Rove's last-minute urge to readdress the grand jury, and Judith Miller's "sudden" discovery of more notes. Fitzgerald, by all accounts, was loaded for bear without these things. As the full a...

Okay, I watched House of Rothschild, and, while it's light-years from being an importnat film, I pretty well enjoyed it in a silly-old-movie way. Arliss is less hammy than in his two 1930-nominated films (I guess by '34 everyone had started to realize stage-to-screen required a little toning down),...

Okay, even if I ignored all the many rumors out there about Cruise...even if everything else that's happened (jumping on the couch, proposing at the Eiffel Tower) didn't have such a ring of falsity about it... A couple that's just got together and is hopelessly in love wants to be just themselves i...

Sorry it took me so long to get to this, Sonic. I rarely mention audience reaction because 1) I can never be sure how to interpret it (I heard many people leaving throughout the last half-hour of the SAG screening of The Pianist; we all know how unindicative that was) and 2) I most often go to Frid...

It's hard to really discuss where A History of Violence goes wrong without committing spoilers, so, be warned: I will spoil something. I wouldn't say the film falls apart in the last half-hour. It continues to hold interest, and more or less resolves itself. And the final scene I think is quite fin...