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Comparing Jane Austen and Frank Capra
Film Friday Teaching Sense and Sensibility in my Jane Austen First Year Seminar is giving me the chance to once again relish the magnificent way that the author dispenses poetic justice. This time...
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Our Greatest Christmas Movie
It's a Wonderful Life Film Friday It’s Christmas Eve, which gives me an excuse to write about what I consider cinema’s greatest Christmas movie: Frank Capra’s It’s a Wonderful Life. It’s a Wonderful...
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Braveheart Is NOT a Christmas Movie
Film Friday I’ll call your Braveheart and raise you an It’s a Wonderful Life. The week before Christmas is not a time that politicians should be talking about Braveheart. But according to Dana Milbank...
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Obamacare: Forcing Soufflé on Everyone
Allen in "Love and Death Film Friday Like many liberals who were excited when Congress passed something approaching comprehensive healthcare, I have been riveted over whether the Supreme Court will...
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Have We Becomes Pottersville?
Which banker is winning today? Film Friday Bank risk-taking is once again in the news with J. P. Morgan’s recent $2 to $5 billion losses (no one seems to know for sure), which occurred just when its...
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Supremes’ Obamacare Decision, The Film
Baldwin, Connery in "Hunt for Red October" Film Friday Yesterday’s Supreme Court’s 5-4 decision upholding Obamacare had all the makings of a Hollywood movie. After all, it had enough unpredictable...
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