Orson Welles was creative and talented, but his genius has to be weighed against his lack of output. After a dynamic theater and radio career, Welles came out with "Citizen Kane" and upped the game for directors everywhere. Then what? He directed "The Magnificent Ambersons" and somebody else had to step in to finish the job. He made "The Trial" and some Shakespeare stuff and that border-zone film noir where Charlton Heston plays a Mexican. Welles acted in Graham Greene's "The Third Man" opposite Joseph Cotten (yet again) gave one of the most memorable depictions of a pragmatic sociopath ever put to film, especially his amusement-park line about Switzerland overseeing 500 years of peace and having nothing to show for it except "the cuckoo clock."

Okay, so that's pretty good. I think Welles also ate way too much steak, grew an opera tenor's beard, and advertised for a company that would sell no wine before its' time.

So, yeah, give me a movie about Welles in the early years, back when he really was the sharpest knife in the toolshed. Not sure if I want to see Claire Danes playing his muse. Last thing I saw her in, she played an actual star.

Movie sounds okay. I hope it's better than "Shakespeare in Love." Or that thing with Jennifer Jason Leigh about Dorothy Parker and the Algonquin Round Table. Richard Linklater knows how to make a decent talkie, but he's no Welles in the cinematic department. I guess it does make sense, though, because Welles eventually did turn into a big, fat slacker.

Calling the Sean Hannity footage-switcheroo an "error" is like calling a head-on collision a "fender bender." That was a transparent attempt to make the event look like more of a success than it really was.

I am glad Fox News is getting tough about such stuff, but it's hard to believe they'd really be so tough if they weren't getting negative publicity. They've had obnoxiously low standards (more like anti-standards) for so long, you gotta wonder: Did the writer of that memo just wake up after a 10-year coma? If you read between the lines, the memo isn't so much a call for higher standards as it is a moratorium on lying to the public...for the time being, at least.

Pretty good movie. Bad ending.

Feminism loses.

Do not lie. Do not "make nice." Do not "go along to get along." Fuck that.

Are you alive? Yes. Are you human? Yes.

So don't subjugate, self-abnegate, or equivocate. Don't pretend.

Be honest. Be proud of who you are. Why not? No really -- give me one good reason why you should hide your beliefs and feelings. One.

If the people around you are intolerant of who you are, they can go fuck themselves.

dterrydraw: "Joan? You, as editor, had no problem (or perhaps you were too busy with your other pursuits) in publishing a "picture" of Palin in a dominatrix outfit.. whip&all...when it pleased you...."

That's a really good point.

Tempest in tube socks.

I admit it, I am in love with Sarah Palin. I want us to run through the Alaskan tundra together, nimbly lifting our snowshoes as flecks of flying permafrost pinken our cherubic grins of joy.

I want to dine on moose-meat with Palin, after hunting down a giant Bullwinkle with our muskets. Sarah Palin and I will carve the carcass together, arm in arm as we plop dollops of raw moose meat (moosey sushi) into each other's giggling maws, the Bullwinkle blood dribbling down our purring necks.

I want to make sweet Alaskan love to Sarah Palin, writhing in front of a 10-log fire on a downy-soft polar bear fur skin, humping and whisker-nuzzling like cold-water seals in heat. I want to melt Sarah Palin's igloo, slide down her luge, and shoot my bullets into her rabid wolf passion.

I admit it, I am in love with Sarah Palin. I want us to run through the Alaskan tundra together, nimbly lifting our snowshoes as flecks of flying permafrost pinken our cherubic grins of joy.

I want to dine on moose-meat with Palin, after hunting down a giant Bullwinkle with our muskets. Sarah Palin and I will carve the carcass together, arm in arm as we plop dollops of raw moose meat (moosey sushi) into each other's giggling maws, the Bullwinkle blood dribbling down our purring necks.

I want to make sweet Alaskan love to Sarah Palin, writhing in front of a 10-log fire on a downy-soft polar bear fur skin, humping and whisker-nuzzling like cold-water seals in heat. I want to melt Sarah Palin's igloo, slide down her luge, and shoot my bullets into her rabid wolf passion.

Women having the freedom to go topless just like men do: GOOD

Women being paid to take their clothes off: BAD

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Women using exposure of their bodies to get ahead: BAD

Fighting against Muslim women being forced to cover bodies: GOOD

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Proving women can do anything men can do: GOOD

Adopting male attitudes and approaches to get there: BAD