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Steven Spielberg to use Stanley Kubrick screenplay for mini-series about Napoleon
Hollywood legend Steven Spielberg is to make a television mini-series about Napoleon, based on a screenplay by Stanley Kubrick, he told a French broadcaster. The 66-year-old “Schindler’s List” and “E.T.” filmmaker is working on the basis of a five-decade old script by Kubrick, who directed classics including “A Clockwork Orange”…
Kirk Cameron blasts DNC: God should be entire platform
Actor-turned-activist Kirk Cameron says that Democrats didn’t go far enough by adding “God” to the party’s platform, insisting that God should be the entire platform. After realizing they had left out the words “God” and “Jerusalem,” Democrats scrambled to modify their platform at the last minute during their convention last…
Obama gets bigger convention ‘bounce’ than Romney did
Obama gets bigger 'bounce' than Romney did, but it’s more like a 'blip' Early returns are in, and it looks like President Obama got more of a poll bounce right after his party’s convention than Mitt Romney did out of the GOP’s big event. Gallup’s daily tracking poll for Friday…
Obama, Romney head to swing states post-convention to drum up support
When Republican Mitt Romney’s campaign plane headed east from Iowa to New Hampshire on Friday, he might have been tempted to look out the window for his White House rival. President Barack Obama, it turns out, was on a similar flight to and from the same states — albeit in…
Eastwood admits he ad-libbed chair speech
Clint Eastwood has admitted he winged it at the Republican National Convention, deciding only at the last minute to ad lib a conversation with an empty chair, in remarks published Friday. In his first public comment on the furor triggered by his eye-brow-raising routine, the Hollywood icon said he made…
Palin complains Democrats attacked ‘little people like me’ at convention
Former Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin on Thursday said she was just one of the “little people” and Democrats should not have mentioned her name during the party’s convention in Charlotte, North Carolina. During an interview with Palin as Democratic event was underway, Fox Business host Neil Cavuto pointed…
Cardinal Dolan uses DNC closing prayer to attack LGBT community
Even though the Democratic Party took a major step forward this week by supporting marriage equality in their official platform for the first time ever, Cardinal Timothy Dolan could not resist taking a shot at equal rights for the LGBT community during his closing prayer at the party’s convention after…
Hollywood stars boost Obama for re-election at convention
Hollywood starlets Eva Longoria, Scarlett Johannson and Kerry Washington took to the convention stage Thursday to try to persuade American voters to re-elect Barack Obama. The trio laid out ordinary early lives far from the bright lights of Hollywood with Longoria using her previous existence as a server at fast-food…
5 Questions For: Sen. Barbara Boxer on backalley abortions, left-wing Obama critics and the economy
Although it’s been almost 20 years since she was first elected to the Senate, Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA) is nonetheless her state’s junior Senator. She’s considered a long-time supporter of women’s reproductive choice and environmentalism, and spoke to Raw Story at the PPL Newsroom at the Democratic National Convention. Raw…
Giffords leads Pledge of Allegiance at Democratic National Convention
Former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) lead the Pledge of Allegiance at the Democratic National Convention on Thursday night. Giffords, who was shot in the head last year, was walked onto the stage by Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) and received lively applause before reciting the pledge. Her appearance brought many…
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