The Last Republican
The story behind The Last Republican, a documentary about Adam Kinzinger: “‘Do you have contempt for my views?’ How a leftwing film-maker and a Republican came together” (The Guardian ).
#strawberries
The Washington Post explains The Caine Mutiny ’s influence on the drafting of the Twenty-fifth Amendment.
“The ſhrill Trumpe”
As seen in the Bodleian First Folio.
Mister Memory
Please imagine Jeff Sessions in the role.
“It’s getting kind of crowded in here”
As the head count at Trump Tower rises, I am reminded of a great moment in film.
“The world’s choosing up sides”
From Saboteur (dir. Alfred Hitchcock, 1942). A defense-plant employee tells the fascist plotter what’s what.
“Tremendous”
The Manchurian Candidate was made into a film in 1962 and 2004. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to miss the joke.
A Face in the Crowd
Disturbingly prophetic.
Hillary Clinton as Norma Desmond
[AP photo.] She's still big (it's the primaries that got small) and, it seems, incapable of acknowledging reality. Joe Gillis on Norma ...