Tune in alert for Showtime documentary, The World According to Dick Cheney. If you were and are a fan of the Gop tactician and what some refer to as "Bush's Brain," Showtime's Dick Cheney doc is right up your alley tonight. The first of Showtime's "Closeup" original documentaries premieres tonight on March 15th. "The World According to Dick Cheney" debuted at the Sundance Film Festival, is a surprisingly candid examination of arguably the most powerful vice president in American history. "The World" charts Cheney's path from the Wyoming beginnings to Yale flunk-out, then his remarkable rise as a young chief of staff (age 33) with President Gerald Ford. Filmmaker R.J. Cutler was given unprecedented access to Cheney,...
- 3/15/2013
- by April Neale
- Monsters and Critics
On Wednesday's Countdown, liberal actress/comedienne/tattooed pundit Janeane Garofalo joined Keith Olbermann to talk a little politics. As they were discussing Sarah Palin's mispronunciation of Herman Cain's name as "Herb" Cain (possibly confusing him, as Olbermann joked, with former columnist Herb Caen), talk turned to the Republican Party's ostensible infatuation with the recent Florida straw-poll winner. Garafalo surmised that "Herman Cain is probably well liked by some of the Republicans because it hides the racist elements of the Republican Party." She then went on to elaborate her theory of a Gop tokenist plot, taking a swipe at "Bush's Brain" in the process: "People like Karl Rove liked to keep the racism very covert. And so Herman Cain provides this great opportunity so that you can say 'Look, this is not a racist, anti-immigrant, anti-female, anti-gay movement. [...]...
- 9/29/2011
- Nerve
Yes, Tom has much to share with us about foreign conflicts. But Karl, aka 'Bush's brain', has some thoughts of his own . . .
Lost in Showbiz knows you only come here for the glamour – but hopefully stay for the hugs – so today we have Tom Hanks, Karl Rove, and a somewhat dysfunctional analogy between the war on terror and the Pacific theatre of operations in the second world war. I do hope you wore heels.
To summarise: this week, Tom Hanks mentioned the war, and Karl Rove – the Rod Hull to George Bush's Emu – didn't let him get away with it, and now they're having a media spat in which racism and Barbra Streisand are hot button issues.
And so to the extended version. You might know that Hanks, along with Mister Spielberg, has produced a new 10-part HBO miniseries called The Pacific, which is set during the...
Lost in Showbiz knows you only come here for the glamour – but hopefully stay for the hugs – so today we have Tom Hanks, Karl Rove, and a somewhat dysfunctional analogy between the war on terror and the Pacific theatre of operations in the second world war. I do hope you wore heels.
To summarise: this week, Tom Hanks mentioned the war, and Karl Rove – the Rod Hull to George Bush's Emu – didn't let him get away with it, and now they're having a media spat in which racism and Barbra Streisand are hot button issues.
And so to the extended version. You might know that Hanks, along with Mister Spielberg, has produced a new 10-part HBO miniseries called The Pacific, which is set during the...
- 3/18/2010
- by Marina Hyde
- The Guardian - Film News
Joy Behar had on her regular guests Ann Coulter and Hilary Rosen to discuss, among other things, Karl Rove's controversial new book Courage and Consequence: My Life as a Conservative in the Fight. When the subject came to Rove's nickname of "Bush's Brain," the analysis turned to that of a Good Cop/Bad Cop scenario between Rove and George W. Bush. Unfortunately for Behar, instead of "bad cop" she inadvertently referred to Rove as "bad c*ck," which earned an in-studio chuckle. Video after the jump.
- 3/9/2010
- by Colby Hall
- Mediaite - TV
By Stephen Saito
Last year, "Young@Heart" caused ripples when it sold to Fox Searchlight to become the first distribution deal to emerge from the L.A. Film Festival, so perhaps it shouldn't have come as a surprise that the festival put documentaries front and center this year, even in a city where there's no shortage of name actors that most other festivals would deploy to lure audiences. Instead, one of the more anticipated star attractions in Los Angeles was a talk with HBO documentary czar Sheila Nevins, who participated in a wide-ranging conversation with L.A. Times columnist Patrick Goldstein about her career of mixing high class projects like the recent doc "Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired" with, well, "Heidi Fleiss: The Would-Be Madam of Crystal," which premiered at the festival hours after Nevins finished up. (The latest from "The Eyes of Tammy Faye" directors Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato,...
Last year, "Young@Heart" caused ripples when it sold to Fox Searchlight to become the first distribution deal to emerge from the L.A. Film Festival, so perhaps it shouldn't have come as a surprise that the festival put documentaries front and center this year, even in a city where there's no shortage of name actors that most other festivals would deploy to lure audiences. Instead, one of the more anticipated star attractions in Los Angeles was a talk with HBO documentary czar Sheila Nevins, who participated in a wide-ranging conversation with L.A. Times columnist Patrick Goldstein about her career of mixing high class projects like the recent doc "Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired" with, well, "Heidi Fleiss: The Would-Be Madam of Crystal," which premiered at the festival hours after Nevins finished up. (The latest from "The Eyes of Tammy Faye" directors Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato,...
- 7/2/2008
- by Stephen Saito
- ifc.com
NEW YORK -- U.K.-based Tartan Films has acquired U.S. rights to Joseph Mealey and Michael Paradies Shoob's political documentary Bush's Brain, with plans to release the project as its first-ever title under its new Stateside banner, Tartan USA. Based on James Moore and Wayne Slater's best-selling book Bush's Brain: How Karl Rove Made George W. Bush Presidential, the docu follows the powerful political consultant Rove's influence on the Bush candidacy. Tartan will release the film later this month, followed by an October home entertainment window. In May, Tartan -- headed by Hamish McAlpine -- expanded its U.K. operation by forging a strategic alliance in the U.S. with M.J. Peckos and Bob Myerson's Dada Films and David Schultz's Vitagraph label. The triumvirate releases films jointly, splitting marketing expenditures.
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