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[rm]

So I really want to see Manchurian Candidate tonight, and I'm thinking that's not going to happen. I've a lot of work to do before tomorrow's rehearsal, and I've got an audition for Richard III right before, and I need to catch up with various people online, and I've a bit of writing I want to do before the emotional impulse behind it leaves me.

In other news, this may be the most blindingly surreal Boldface Names column to ever grace the New York Times. No, really. It's worth the read, incomprehensible though it is: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/30/nyregion/30bold.html (Alan Cumming, Leonardo DiCaprio, Ben Affleck, and one of the Baldwins rambling incoherently about the relationship between Teresa Heinz Kerry and Tish Addams of The Addams Family -- you can't make this stuff up, and you wouldn't want to).

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[magicwoman.livejournal.com]

Thank you for the NYTimes link. Incredible. And not in a good way.

Susan

[heron61.livejournal.com]

I'm exceptionally eager to see Manchurian Candidate (and am eagerly telling everyone I know that I know someone who was in the film) because you are in it, because it sounds good, and because it is a seriously political film that I expect to do more to hurt Bush that Fahrenheit 9/11, because people of all political stripes will see it.

[lllvis.livejournal.com]

hey if you do see it, and probably will before I do, any chance if you find yourself onscreen anywhere you can describe the scene, or key things to look for to know it's coming? That will be my primary reason for going to see it..!

[rm.livejournal.com]

I don't think Manchurian Candidate will have any effect on the election whatsoever. The allegory is murky... you can't clearly draw connections to one political party or the other from it, and it's clearly not about making a statement about anything except perhaps our national state of mind and general capacity for credulity in the face of the truly bizarre. The only real world thing that manages to get zinged effectively in it is Halliburton or the Carlyle Group, depending on what your mind jumps to first.