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  • The 20 Most Overrated Movies of All Time

    12/13/2006 5:40:45 PM PST · by EveningStar · 374 replies · 3,660+ views
    Premiere Magazine ^ | December 12, 2006 | various
    It happens to everyone who loves movies: You're in a conversation at a bar, or at a wedding, or online, and someone begins rhapsodizing about one of their favorite movies and you can't help but say, "Uh, that movie sucks. It's totally overrated." How two perfectly well-balanced individuals can have such drastically different views of the same film is one of the great wonders of being a film fanatic. It happens to us at Premiere all the time, enough so that sometimes we find ourselves questioning who we work with (boy, did it get ugly here when Love, Actually came...
  • Clinton's 'Plantation' Remark Draws Fire

    01/17/2006 8:34:18 PM PST · by beyond the sea · 119 replies · 2,211+ views
    cnn.com ^ | 1/17/06 | unknown
    WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Sen. Hillary Clinton drew criticism Tuesday for a Martin Luther King Jr. Day speech in which she told a mostly black audience at a Harlem church that Republican leaders have run the House "like a plantation" and the Bush administration will go down as "one of the worst" in U.S. history. Responding to the speech, House Speaker Dennis Hastert called her remarks "a little bit over the top." "I've never run a plantation before. I'm not even sure of what kind of association she's trying to make," said the speaker, a Republican from Illinois. "If she's trying...