[dfwgator]

Mr. Shales said it was shameful that vulgar dramatizers would "exploit" the pain of those on the flight and those they left behind. Or as he put it, he had, innocent that he is, thought it "unthinkable" that "even the sleaziest producers" would "exploit any aspect of a nightmare that the nation had witnessed in horror."

I bet he'll have nothing but praise for Oliver Stone's upcoming 9/11 film.

[Howlin]

About Tom Shales' review of Flight 93:

I was stunned when I read this part of his column:

The movie spends its first eight minutes unreeling credits and showing us details germane and irrelevant as Flight 93 is prepared for takeoff; the pilots suit up, passengers wait at the gate (one woman carrying the book "What to Expect When You're Expecting"), and the terrorists shave -- one of them even, for some reason, shaves his chest.

Can you believe a man who writes for The Washington Post did not know the symbolic meaning of the terrorists shaving before they got on the planes?