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'Hyde Park,' 'Lincoln' and more films give history a leading role
In "Hyde Park on Hudson," the retelling of the visit of the king and queen of England to President Franklin D. Roosevelt in upstate New York in 1939, there's a particularly remarkable scene: Roosevelt's mother — who owned the house where everyone...
Tags: Entertainment Events, Hyde Park on Hudson (movie), Moonrise Kingdom (movie), David Chase, Argo (movie)
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Neo-Confederates in Congress resist a rapidly changing world
Revolutionary changes are coming at us at supersonic speed, bringing new challenges that are existential and global. Yet our political system seems incapable of adapting to, or even fully acknowledging, those changes. Instead, the system is constricted by...
Tags: Theodore Roosevelt, Lyndon B. Johnson, Global Change, Interior Policy, Religion and Belief
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Lessons for Obama from reading inaugurals past [Video chat]
Editor's note: Join Hector Tobar and book critic David L. Ulin on the Jacket Copy blog for a live video chat on the literary legacy of American inaugurations in general, and President Obama's 2013 inauguration in particular, on Tuesday at 10 a.m. Pacific....
Tags: Woodrow Wilson, John F. Kennedy, Sonia Sotomayor, Barack Obama
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Letters: Fiction vs. nonfiction
Re “What students read,” Editorial, Dec. 27 It's a mistake to believe that fiction is intrinsically superior to nonfiction. The ideas expressed in great speeches over the years, for example, hold their own against the classics because they...Tags: Arts and Culture, Literature
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Revisionism Tokyo-style
This month 75 years ago, the people of Nanking, China's ancient capital city, were in the midst of one of the worst atrocities in history, the infamous Rape of Nanking. The truth of what actually happened is at the center of a bitter dispute between China...
Tags: Wars and Interventions, Shinzo Abe, World War II (1939-1945), Armed Conflicts, Tokyo (Japan)
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The fiscal cliff ... of '32
Close your eyes in Washington these days and you can almost hear the echoes of 1932. Eighty years ago, just like today, a fiscal crisis almost totally dominated the nation's capital. Then, as now, fiscal conservatives demanded immediate action to fix...
Tags: Republican Party, John Nance, William Randolph Hearst, Federal Income Tax, Personal Income
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McManus: The perils of political punditry
Back in 2011, at the dawn of a long presidential campaign, I established a fine baseline for my credentials as a political prognosticator: I told readers that Mitt Romney's strongest challengers for the Republican nomination would be Texas Gov. Rick Perry...
Tags: Republican Party, Michele Bachmann, Gun Control, U.S. Congress, Elections
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Bill Murray's take on FDR in 'Hyde Park on Hudson'
TELLURIDE, Colo. — Actors are used to pressure, but the task before Bill Murray in "Hyde Park on Hudson" was more than a little stressful. Director Roger Michell said that if the "Ghostbusters" and "Groundhog Day" veteran didn't want to star as...
Tags: Entertainment Events, Hyde Park on Hudson (movie), Moonrise Kingdom (movie), Groundhog Day (movie), Polio
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Golden Globes 2013: Lead actor choices take small turn in comedy
Hollywood Foreign Press voters didn't go for Johnny Depp or Brad Pitt this year, saving their lead actor surprises for men who headlined smaller, more intimate films. In the comedy-musical category, lead honors went to Jack Black for the dark indie...
Tags: Entertainment Events, Hyde Park on Hudson (movie), Ed Helms, Richard Gere, Movies
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'Hyde Park on Hudson' doesn't illuminate FDR, critics say
"Hyde Park on Hudson," this award season's less flashy presidential portrait, stars Bill Murray as Franklin Delano Roosevelt at the time of a visit by England's King George VI (Samuel West) and Queen Elizabeth (Olivia Colman) in 1939 to drum up...
Tags: Hyde Park on Hudson (movie), Movies, Samuel West, Lincoln (movie, 2012), Elizabeth Wilson
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71st anniversary of Pearl Harbor: Nation pauses to remember
Dec. 7, 1941, the date of the military strike by Japan on Pearl Harbor, is being remembered today around the nation. "71 years ago at 0755 HST was the 1st attack on Pearl Harbor. Taking a moment of silence to remember those lost," reads a recent tweet...
Tags: Emergency Incidents, World War II (1939-1945), U.S. Congress, U.S. Navy, Attack on Pearl Harbor (1941)
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Lincoln and FDR movies are a reminder politics is seldom pretty
Two new movies, “Lincoln” and “Hyde Park on the Hudson,” are intimate portraits of the two most consequential presidents of the United States. They are timely reminders that politics has never been pretty and our leaders have never...
Tags: Republican Party, Polio, Movies, World War II (1939-1945), MSNBC (tv network)
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