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From the GREAT STATE OF MAINE...

Coming Attractions

Productions with a political bent:

Now Playing: Standard Operating Procedure
Cast: The guards of Abu Ghraib
Bush, Cheney, Tenet, Ashcroft and many other former and present administration hacks should have their eyes propped open with toothpicks and be forced to watch this twenty times in a row. Oscar-winning documentarian Errol Morris interviews several of the Abu Ghraib prison guards, and reveals even more photos. As a nation, we're still asking ourselves how and why this could happen. This movie helps get us a little closer to the truth.
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May 23: War, Inc.
Cast: John Cusack, Joan Cusack, Marisa Tomei, Hilary Duff, Ben Kingsley.
Co-written, co-produced and starring fellow Kossack John Cusack. A political satire set in the country of Turaqistan, which is occupied by a private American corporation run by a former U.S. vice president (Dan Aykroyd channeling Cheney). Oh, and some chick puts a scorpion down her pants. What's that all about, John?
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May 25: Recount (HBO)
Cast: Kevin Spacey, John Hurt, Tom Wilkinson, Laura Dern, Denis Leary.

"How hard is it to punch a paper ballot?"
"It's pretty hard when you're 80-something years old, you're arthritic and you’re blind as a bat."

I can't wait for this HBO movie, directed by Jay Roach ("Austin Powers," "Meet the Parents"), about the stolen 2000 election. And here's why: Laura Dern's deliriously loopy performance as Florida Secretary of State Katherine "I cannot accept returns after the deadline unless there's a hurricane" Harris.
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Official site

August 1: Swing Vote
Cast: Kevin Costner, Dennis Hopper, Nathan Lane, Kelsey Grammer, Chris Matthews and a bunch of other cable news pundits in cameos.
This could either be cute in the "Dave" mold...or deadly dull like "Man of the Year." Kevin Costner is in "Field of Dreams" mode as an aging loser who, because of a Diebold machine glitch, ends up with the tie-breaking vote in a presidential election. Candidates Hopper and Grammer court his vote, and I'm sure everyone learns valuable lessons about life and democracy and yadda yadda yadda.
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Now Playing on Broadway: Thurgood
Cast: Lawrence Fishburne as Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall
Variety says: "A few minutes into Thurgood and he's got the audience eating right out of his hand. While that image may serve to describe the star power of Laurence Fishburne, it applies just as well to the late Thurgood Marshall, the subject of this one-man show penned by George Stevens Jr. The first black justice of the Supreme Court was the kind of character you can really take into your heart." Four words for Stevens, Jr. and Fishburne: Make it a movie!
Full review.

Late Summer---We Were This Close
Michael Moore talks with Larry King about his upcoming doc:

Larry King: You'll be putting out a new documentary about the 2004 election---the working title is We Were This Close---around the Time of the National political conventions.

Michael Moore: A lot of people are nervous now. Could McCain win? Look at what's happening to Democrats. We're only one state shy...one red state shy. It's Ohio or Florida. ... I want people to remember that we had these arenas every night, 15,000 people would show up. It was incredible. You actually could see the early beginnings of this massive movement now that's behind Obama. It's only going to continue to get bigger. I think that's a very positive thing for the country.

We'll post more info as it becomes available.

2009: W Get a load of George W. Bush (Josh Brolin) in Oliver Stone's 2009 biopic of Chimpy. He looks creeoy, he looks calculating, and he looks constipated. I like where this is heading. (And I'm ROTFLMAO knowing that Rob Corddry is playing that weasel Ari Fleischer. Perfect!)
More cast info here

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