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Just saw the trailer for Afleck's movie, Live By Night. He's obviously a 30's gangster, shootouts with cops, throat cutting, bombs blowing up stores. And the tagline at the end of the trailer is "Paying the Price - of the AMERICAN DREAM"

Like Clarice, I find myself feeling a little more alienated from mainstream “culture” with each passing year. Take the self-adulation orgy of the Golden Globes for example(SNIP) Last night’s telecast of the awards was, well, Les Miserables. I missed Ricky Gervais. His irreverent, non-partisan assaults lobbed in all quarters made heads explode. I guess the studio bosses and their hired hands didn’t find that as entertaining as I did. So this year we got NBC’s dream team: Tina Fey and Amy Poehler: (snip) let’s get on with this year’s winners/losers in both the film and fashion categories. Julianne Moore, for...

North America appears to be the only place on earth where someone who hasn’t finished high school, but can sing or dance, can make political pronouncements and have everyone listen as if they were profound. The latest in a long line of entertainers who are choosing to yak instead of sing is Harry Belafonte, who, while cuddling up to Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez and claiming to be a great admirer of Fidel Castro, pronounced George W. Bush to be the world’s most fearsome terrorist.

GOP Hijacked by 'Fundamentalist Wackos,' Actor Says By Marc Morano CNSNews.com Senior Staff Writer July 29, 2004 Boston (CNSNews.com) - Actor Alec Baldwin slammed the influence of religious conservatives on Wednesday, telling Democrats that the Republican Party "has been hijacked by these fundamentalist wackos." The audience, which included Democratic National Committee Chairman Terry McAuliffe, greeted Baldwin's comment with sustained applause. "To me, the Republican Party is the real great tragedy of the last 25 years because there are lot of good and decent people and a lot of good political points [that have] come from the Republican Party in the...

Class Act. You can take the woman out of the ghetto...but you can't take the ghetto out of the woman. Nice choice Ben! Hope they taste good JLO.