All the Bundler Info You Can Possibly Handle

Today I wrote an article about presidential candidates’ pre-pre-primary contest to line up campaign bundlers. Rudy, McCain, Romney; Hillary, Obama, Edwards — even Biden and Richardson — have all been making the rounds. And while there is a tendency at times to paint both the Democratic and Republican money-races as two-way battles –WWF-style Read More

Applause from the Second Tier

All those Democratic hopefuls commonly referred to as second tier candidates seemed to have enjoyed the show of the Hillary v. Obama Hollywood smack down yesterday.

“It makes both of them look small,” said a staffer to one of the many candidates fighting for screen time in the Democratic field. “It’s an opportunity for all Read More

Richardson’s Lively Disaster: Waugh’s The Loved One

Stuck in that weird intersection between the death throes of the old Hollywood and the birth pangs of the new, The Loved One, Tony Richardson’s 1965 film of Evelyn Waugh’s satire of famed Los Angeles cemetery Forest Lawn, remains one of the strangest mainstream American movies, and one of its most entertaining disasters.

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