Links for the Day: Obama Releases Birth Certificate, Drama League Nominations, Tindersticks Claire Denis Film Scores Album Reviewed, & More

Links for the Day: Obama Releases Birth Certificate, Drama League Nominations, Tindersticks Claire Denis Film Scores Album Reviewed, & More

By Ed Gonzalez on April 28, 2011 in Links for the Day Jump to Comments (0)

Barack Obama Birth Certificate

President Obama releases "long form" birth certificate.

Is Chris Colfer a genius? Matt Zoller Seitz thinks so.

The death toll from severe storms that punished five Southern U.S. states jumped to a staggering 178 Thursday after Alabama canvassed its hard-hit counties for a new tally of lives lost.

The Drama League nominations were announced yesterday in New York.

Take a look at Julianne Moore as Sarah Palin.

Pitchfork reviews Tindersticks's Claire Denis Film Scores 1996-2009. (Related: More from Dennis Lim.)

South Africa photographer Sam Nzima honored for Soweto photo.

Chris Matthews smacks down a couple of birther fucks:

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TAGS: barack obama, chris colfer, chris matthews, claire denis, claire denis film scores 1996-2009, dennis lim, glee, julianne moore, matt zoller seitz, pitchfork, sam nzima, sarah palin, tea party, the drama league, tindersticks

No-Personality: I suppose your question was rhetorical. However, you do make a good point (intentionally or not) as to how ambiguous a terms "right of" or "left of center" can be out of context. For instance, my (clumsy) self-characterization probably really wasn't very useful. And I'm sure you'd be surprised to hear that, at this point, I'm just as (or perhaps more) likely to vote to re-elect 44 in 2012 as any of the current crop of GOP front-runners. So, just to state my main point about HBO's upcoming pol-flick in less unclear terms: Anyone who thinks "Game Change" was **mainly** about the McCain-Palin campaign either hasn't read it, is intellectually dishonest, has an axe to grind, or just doesn't have a fucking clue. :)
Posted by Matt Maul on 2011-04-29 19:26:22 I was wondering myself, why would a person be right-of-center, politically?
Posted by Anonymous on 2011-04-29 18:24:26 Get a new job.
Posted by David Ehrenstein on 2011-04-28 16:49:17 That the cast announcements for "Game Change" have uniformly highlighted who is portraying McCain, Palin and their campaign staff gives me pause. Will the HBO movie focus on their (failed) side of the 2008 election? Two-thirds of the actual book, which I had problems with from a journalistic standpoint, per my review in "Edward Copeland On Film" (http://eddieonfilm.blogspot.com/2009/09/game-change-by-john-heilemann-and-mark.html), covered the strategic battle waged between Obama and Clinton for the DEMOCRATIC nomination and the tension which ensued during their respective campaigns. In fact, THAT'S mainly what the f'n title of the book refers to: how OBAMA'S different approach allowed him to literally come out of nowhere to win the presidency. This was, by far, much more interesting than the smaller, supporting story about McCain's temper tantrums and Palin's alleged postpartum depression. As a right-of-center person politically, I constantly argue to my Conservative friends that the meme about an anti-Republican bias in Hollywood is overblown. However, if, as I suspect, "Game Change: The Movie" ends up being ABOUT McCain/Palin, then I fear my job just got tougher.
Posted by Matt Maul on 2011-04-28 14:41:47

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