Letters to the Editor
Miscweant
Published Letters: 3 Editor's Choice: 1
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President Hastert '07!
[Read the article: 2006: Bush's Waterloo?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]n/t
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The real problem is...
[Read the article: Was the 2004 election stolen? No.]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]not that Bush & company stole Ohio (or FL in '00). The real problem (as pointed out by my 18 year old son) is that Gore & Kerry both ran such inept campaigns that Bush was able to get close enough to steal both elections by supressing a few thousand votes each time.
Instead of blaming Jeb, Blackwell, Diebold or Nader, we should look at our candidates and ask why they weren't able to administer a well-deserved electoral ass-kicking to an blatantly unqualified and inept candidate/president.
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1985 "Alice in Wonderland"? Puh-leeze!
[Read the article: The ultimate family DVD list]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Evidently there's some fondness out there for this execrable, Hollywood dress-up version of Carroll's classic - don't ask me why, I've never seen another Alice this lifeless or flat. The first tip-off it doesn't have a clue how to tell the story is Alice screaming as she falls down the rabbit hole (well, it *is* an Irwin Allen production); everyone knows she has a very sensible conversation with herself while floating down into Wonderland.
My favorite Alice: 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland," a 1972 all-star British version (Michael Crawford as the White Rabbit, Dudley Moore as the dormouse, Peter Sellers as the March Hare, etc.) beautifully photographed by Geoffrey Unsworth with music by James Bond composer John Barry. It's easy to find crappy pan 'n scan, public domain dubs of this in 99-cent DVD bins, but hopefully someday an official, first-generation widescreen version will be released.