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Washington corruption has a new foe in the guise of Oscar winning actor Kevin Spacey. Interviewed at a screening of his latest film Casino Jack, in which he plays nefarious lobbyist Jack Abramoff, Spacey dropped political science on a CNS reporter. As much as they’d like to pretend they cleaned up the lobbying industry by throwing this guy [Abramoff] in jail, they haven’t. It’s still got too much influence… To some degree, I blame the networks. You know, I think if network television started to agree to run legitimate ads that you knew were true – if you’re gonna say...

A US sea captain whose dramatic rescue from pirates made headlines across the globe earlier this year is to be the subject of a new Hollywood film. Richard Phillips, a 53-year-old father of two who secured the safety of his cargo ship, the Maersk Alabama, by offering himself as a hostage to Somali pirates, has sold his story to Columbia Pictures. Phillips was held for five days off the coast of Somalia last month before US navy snipers shot dead three of the four men who had imprisoned him on a lifeboat, an action authorised by president Obama. The fourth...

Zbigniew Brzezinski says that since we talked to Likud, we can talk to Hamas. And Kevin Spacey, who has trouble keeping his disputed primary states straight, suggests that his "Recount" plays it straight, despite evidence to the contrary. All that and more on today's Morning Joe. In reverse order, let's begin with Zbig's appearance, and consider this statement. ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI: I have joined a bi-partisan group of some prominent Americans including Paul Volcker, Brent Scowcroft, Lee Hamilton, and some others, in saying that talking to Hamas is a necessary course of action. You know, we talked to Likud when Likud...

Actor Kevin Spacey met privately Monday with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, one of Washington's most outspoken critics in Latin America. Neither Spacey -- who has won Academy Awards for roles in "The Usual Suspects" and "American Beauty" -- nor Chavez spoke to the press after the nearly three-hour encounter in the presidential palace in Caracas. They shook hands warmly on the red carpet as Spacey left after a dinner with Chavez. Hours earlier, the actor visited a $13 million film studio founded last year by the government to support Venezuelan filmmaking. Details were not released about the rest of Spacey's...

Every once in awhile, the residents of my DUmmie Ant Farm stop in the middle of their Leftwing Circular Mill and suddenly notice that they are being watched. And what they see makes them VERY self concious. As is typical in this DUmmie THREAD, they are outraged because they are being quoted word for word accurately for all to laugh at. This seems to be typical among those of the Leftwing Loony persuasion nowadays. Their attitude is "How dare you quote what we actually say!!!" Sorry, but Copy and Paste is the secret of the DUmmie FUnnies success. We...

You read that right. Pied Piper Pitt actually did invite Kevin Spacey quite urgently over to his apartment. Actually this story began two weeks ago as you can see in this Pitt THREAD when Kevin Spacey walked into Bukowski's and in the midst of a Pitt lecture about he wasn't awed by celebrity, he engaged in celebrity worship of the most blatant sort. In the second ENCOUNTER with Spacey in the same bar, Pitt dispensed with whatever fictitious non-chalance he pretended to have the first time and BEGGED Spacey to visit his simple abode. So let us now watch...

My husband and I saw a movie last night that I would like to recommend to members of FreeRepublic as a break from the often overwhelmingly grim news of the day (Iraq, Indonesia). The movie is "Beyond The Sea", PG-13, the biopic of Bobby Darin, singer, composer, showman. This movie is simply outstanding and deserves to be seen in a theater with surround sound -- please don't wait for the DVD. Kevin Spacey wrote it, directed it, produced it, and stars in it; and he is fabulous. But -- equally fabulous is the rest of the cast -- John Goodman,...

<p>Years ago I was told by a confidant of two-time Oscar winner Kevin Spacey that his father, Thomas Geoffrey Fowler, had been a member of the American Nazi party.</p> <p>"He had Nazi memorabilia everywhere, and was completely devoted to the party," said the source.</p>

LONDON (Reuters) - British commuters take note -- the respectable person sitting next to you on the train fumbling with their cell phone might be a "toother" looking for sex with a stranger. "Toothing" is a new craze where strangers on trains, buses, in bars and even supermarkets hook up for illicit meetings using messages sent via the latest in phone technology. "Toothing is a form of anonymous sex with strangers -- usually on some form of transport or enclosed area such as a conference or training seminar," says the "Beginner's Guide To Toothing" on a Web site dedicated to...

NEW YORK -- Actor Christopher Reeve knows how to get to fellow celebrities. As consultant to the upcoming PBS series Freedom, he wanted well-known actors to provide voices for characters from American history. But if he went through managers, publicists or agents, Reeve knew he'd get some brush-offs. So he wrote to the celebrities themselves. He assembled an impressive list: Jennifer Aniston, Michael Caine, Sean Connery, Michael Douglas, Morgan Freeman, Tom Hanks, Robert Redford, Meryl Streep, Kevin Spacey, Robin Williams and many others. Reeve, 50, wanted to participate because his half brother, a teacher in rural Vermont, had such trouble...

<p>As we pause from our busy lives to commemorate the 25th anniversary of Elvis Presley's death, it must be noted that as creative and influential as this brilliant-but-tragic man was, he does not deserve to be called, as he is by so many, the King.</p> <p>Sure, Elvis was a figure of transcendent influence in pop music. He was, at least in his earlier years, an electrifying performer. He is known for the ability he had to combine disparate elements of black and white Southern music (country, blues, rockabilly) into a driving, compelling and, most of all, popular style.</p>