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Despite strongly supporting and promoting a new movie touting Democratic presidential nominee John F. Kerry and his service in Vietnam heavily to its members last week, liberal political action group MoveOn.org had very little effect on the box office totals and saw the movie bomb in its opening weekend. The new pro-Kerry movie which hit theaters on Friday just one month before the presidential election is called "Going Upriver: The Long War of John Kerry." MoveOn.org had high hopes this film would perform well over the weekend. "It's a great new movie," MoveOn.org gushed to its supporters in an e-mail...

But Droz, a key witness in the ongoing debate over Kerry's service record, is missing from it, killed in a rocket attack in Vietnam in April 1969 days after Kerry returned home. While Droz cannot defend Kerry, his widow, Judith Droz Keyes, said she feels she must. She said she is confident that her husband would defend both Kerry's record in Vietnam and his antiwar activism. "John Kerry was a good friend, and a loyal friend to my late husband," she said in a telephone interview from her office in San Francisco. "My husband isn't here to speak, and all...

Conservative filmmakers launch their own version of the "Sundance Film Festival" in Dallas, TX.

Why Documentaries Like FAHRENHEIT 9/11 Should Not Be Trusted They say a picture is worth a thousand words, but can you know if a picture is telling you what is true or what is reality? Many reviews of FAHRENHEIT 9/11 have releated some of the factual errors in Michael Moore's propaganda movie. Two of the biggest falsehoods in Moore’s movie are that President George Bush stole the Florida election results in 2000 to become president and that President Bush let members of the Bin Laden family from Saudi Arabia fly out of the country after 9/11 during the ban on...

Anyone who thinks that Michael Moore's film "Fahrenheit 9/11" is an aberration because, as a so-called "documentary," it has a far-left slant and thus is not representative of documentary films, needs to understand that the great majority of such films are just as ultra-liberal as Moore's latest propaganda. Even the liberal Washington Post reported Thursday that "Fahrenheit" is "strictly par for the course." The paper noted that while Fox News Channel leads all cable news channels; Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham dominate talk radio; and bookstores are loaded with books by Bill O'Reilly, Ann Coulter and Bernard Goldberg,...

Have you ever noticed (in Film) every one speaks with a British Accent? From Obi Wan to Ben Hur , to Vulcans every one in the bloody universe speaks the Queen's English! I am surprized that the holy lord of factoids-Andy Rooney-hasn't brought up this bit of trivia!

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<p>MIAMI - Days after some Florida voters confronted balky touchscreen machines set up by untrained poll workers, two Los Angeles film makers are providing a window back to butterfly ballots and dimpled chads.</p> <p>"Unprecedented: The 2000 Presidential Election," a critical look at Florida's previous election woes, premiered this week in Miami.</p>

Reliving 9/11: Too Much? Too Soon?By JULIE SALAMON week after they've each lost a parent in the World Trade Center attack, two boys, ages 7 and 16, conduct an experiment. They take a map of the world into a local store in Tottenville, at the southern tip of Staten Island. As customers come in, the older boy hands them a marker and asks them to circle Afghanistan. The boy asks them to name the leader of the terrorist organization that attacked America. The name Bin Laden draws blanks. This scene comes from "Telling Nicholas," an HBO documentary, showing tonight, that follows...