[Our man in washington]

Oh, well. I just thought Cooper's devotion to duty epitomized conservative values. Guess I learned something new here.

Scratch that one. Well, there's always last year's "A Walk to Remember" which is not a great movie. But it's good, and very conservative.

[L.N. Smithee]

Oh, well. I just thought Cooper's devotion to duty epitomized conservative values. Guess I learned something new here.

I didn't say High Noon wasn't a great movie. It just wasn't created from a conservative point-of-view.

Heck, one of my fave movies is Star Wars, and while the Buddhist overtones are irritating at times, I don't let them get in the way of my enjoyment.

For some other movies, there are no overtones -- just a rubber mallet pounding the biases of the filmmaker into your face. I just caught half of Tim Robbins' Bob Roberts yesterday on Bravo (The Gay Network) and was amazed at how insulting the whole thing was to the viewer's intelligence.