Aaron Sorkin imagines former President Jed Bartlet giving Candidate Obama a pep talk:
BARTLET That was a hell of a convention.
OBAMA Thank you, I was proud of it.
BARTLET I meant the Republicans. The Us versus Them-a-thon. As a Democrat I was surprised to learn that I don’t like small towns, God, people with jobs or America. I’ve been a little out of touch but is there a mandate that the vice president be skilled at field dressing a moose —
Like finding a lost episode of “The West Wing”, this has made my day.
[via Maureen Dowd's column in the New York Times]
Dave Kehr reviews the new Godfather Trilogy Blu-ray restoration (a restoration in consultation with original cinematographer Gordon Willis) for The New York Times:
The effect is not unlike that of a pristine 35-millimeter print projected in perfect focus — a rare enough phenomenon in a movie theater and, until quite recently, inconceivable in the living room.
This is a Holy Grail moment. With Criterion about to start releasing on Blu-ray before the end of the year, I going to have to make the leap. Curses.
You may ooze bile but you will teach the children by those books that you will be given and in the way that is needed by Russia. And as to the noble nonsense that you carry in your misshapen goateed heads, either it will be ventilated out of them or you yourself will be ventilated out of teaching…. It is impossible to let some Russophobe shit-stinker (govnyuk), or just any amoral type, teach Russian history. It is necessary to clear the filth, and if it does not work, then clear it by force.
Pavel Danilin, editor-in-chief of Kremlin.org and contributor of a chapter to the new, officially-sanctioned, history of Russia high school textbook.
[via The New Republic]
