"He wasn't anything like what people think he was." 1091 Media has unveiled the first official trailer for a documentary titled Making Montgomery Clift, a new feature from doc filmmakers Hillary Demmon and Monty's nephew Robert Clift. This premiered at a few smaller film festivals last year, but is only now getting a good VOD release next month. The doc film is a re-examination of the life of famed American actor Montgomery Clift. The classic, beloved film actor received four Oscar nominations throughout his life. But this doc seems to focus more on his private life, a "tragic story" of a "queer icon", plus other stories that may or not be true. Featuring Montgomery, along with Brooks Clift, Ethel "Sunny" Clift, Patricia Bosworth, Jack Larson, Judy Balaban, Robert Osborne, Eleanor Clift, Lorenzo James, Tucker Tooley, Mollie Gregory, Vincent Newman, Michael Easton, Woody Clift, and Eddie Clift. Looks like a compelling analysis of Monty.
- 8/21/2019
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
The McLaughlin Group has reconvened with a familiar new host and will return to PBS stations nationwide early next year.
The pioneering, long-running political punditry forum resurfaced last year on Wjla-tv Washington D.C. with host Tom Rogan and fellow show veterans Pat Buchanan, Eleanor Clift and Clarence Page. Maryland Public Television will begin airing the revived show exclusively on Friday, September 6. American Public Television confirmed to Deadline that it will distribute The McLaughlin Group to PBS outlets nationwide in January.
Maryland Public Television and The McLaughlin Group’s longtime production company Re-Group Media will produce the weekly series, which will be recorded each Friday at a D.C studio.
The original McLaughlin Group originated on public TV in 1982 and aired for 34 years until just before host John McLaughlin’s death in August 2016. He had missed his first episode of the talk fest the week before. Rogan, Buchanan, Clift and...
The pioneering, long-running political punditry forum resurfaced last year on Wjla-tv Washington D.C. with host Tom Rogan and fellow show veterans Pat Buchanan, Eleanor Clift and Clarence Page. Maryland Public Television will begin airing the revived show exclusively on Friday, September 6. American Public Television confirmed to Deadline that it will distribute The McLaughlin Group to PBS outlets nationwide in January.
Maryland Public Television and The McLaughlin Group’s longtime production company Re-Group Media will produce the weekly series, which will be recorded each Friday at a D.C studio.
The original McLaughlin Group originated on public TV in 1982 and aired for 34 years until just before host John McLaughlin’s death in August 2016. He had missed his first episode of the talk fest the week before. Rogan, Buchanan, Clift and...
- 8/13/2019
- by Erik Pedersen
- Deadline Film + TV
In today’s roundup, Lifetime announces the cast of “The College Admissions Scandal” and the “Vikings” creator is in development on a series about Charlemagne.
Casting
Penelope Ann Miller and Mia Kirshner will headline the Lifetime movie “The College Admissions Scandal,” based on the true events of more than 50 families that fraudulently helped their children gain admission to universities.
Pop announced that Martha Plimpton will guest star on “Flack,” which was recently renewed for a second season. Sam Neil and Daniel Dae Kim will also appear in season two.
Dates
Viceland has set the premiere date for the serialized true crime show “The Devil You Know” for Aug. 27. The five-part series follows satanist John Lawson after two bodies turn up in his house. The docu-series “Terror” will also premiere on Aug. 27. The series explores global terrorist organizations such as Al Qaeda, Boko Haram, Al Shabaab, the Taliban and Isis.
Maryland Public Television...
Casting
Penelope Ann Miller and Mia Kirshner will headline the Lifetime movie “The College Admissions Scandal,” based on the true events of more than 50 families that fraudulently helped their children gain admission to universities.
Pop announced that Martha Plimpton will guest star on “Flack,” which was recently renewed for a second season. Sam Neil and Daniel Dae Kim will also appear in season two.
Dates
Viceland has set the premiere date for the serialized true crime show “The Devil You Know” for Aug. 27. The five-part series follows satanist John Lawson after two bodies turn up in his house. The docu-series “Terror” will also premiere on Aug. 27. The series explores global terrorist organizations such as Al Qaeda, Boko Haram, Al Shabaab, the Taliban and Isis.
Maryland Public Television...
- 8/12/2019
- by Dano Nissen
- Variety Film + TV
Following the death of TV series creator and host John McLaughlin, at the age of 89, The McLaughlin Group TV show is winding to a close, after 34 years on the air. The weekly syndicated half-hour public affairs roundtable ran mostly on PBS stations in the Us. Regular panelists include Pat Buchanan, Eleanor Clift, Clarence Page, and Tom Rogan. Paul Glastris, Mort Zuckerman, and David Rennie were frequent guests. Past contributors include: Lawrence O'Donnell, Chris Matthews, Katty Kay, and Al Hunt.Variety reports that while the show was well-established enough that it could have withstood a a new host, it was McLaughlin who decided -- five years ago -- that the show should end when he was finished with it. According to the report, he missed his very first episode, due to health problems, last week. The final episode will air this week. Check...
- 8/19/2016
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
John McLaughlin’s “The McLaughlin Group” will come to an end this week following the host’s death on Tuesday, TheWrap has learned. McLaughlin served as host, creator and executive producer on the program, which aired on multiple PBS stations across the country. The program, which first launched in 1982, has featured a panel of hosts, which most recently included McLaughlin, Pat Buchanan, Eleanor Clift, Clarence Page and Tom Rogan. The remaining panelists will tape one final episode before the show comes to an end. Also Read: John McLaughlin, Host of 'The McLaughlin Group,' Dies at 89 McLaughlin died on...
- 8/18/2016
- by Reid Nakamura
- The Wrap
John McLaughlin, the conservative talk-show host and pop-culture lightning rod who helmed the long-running roundtable TV show The McLaughlin Group, has died. He was 89.
The McLaughlin Group Facebook page reported the news. "Earlier this morning, a beloved friend and mentor, Dr. John McLaughlin, passed away peacefully at the age of 89," the statement read. "As a former Jesuit priest, teacher, pundit and news host, John touched many lives. For 34 years, The McLaughlin Group informed millions of Americans. Now he has said bye bye for the last time, to rejoin his beloved dog,...
The McLaughlin Group Facebook page reported the news. "Earlier this morning, a beloved friend and mentor, Dr. John McLaughlin, passed away peacefully at the age of 89," the statement read. "As a former Jesuit priest, teacher, pundit and news host, John touched many lives. For 34 years, The McLaughlin Group informed millions of Americans. Now he has said bye bye for the last time, to rejoin his beloved dog,...
- 8/16/2016
- Rollingstone.com
John McLaughlin, host of the syndicated political talk show “The McLaughlin Group,” died at the age of 89 on Tuesday, according to the show’s official Facebook account. “Earlier this morning, a beloved friend and mentor, Dr. John McLaughlin, passed away peacefully at the age of 89,” the Facebook post read. “As a former jesuit priest, teacher, pundit and news host, John touched many lives. For 34 years, The McLaughlin Group informed millions of Americans. Now he has said bye bye for the last time, to rejoin his beloved dog, Oliver, in heaven. He will always be remembered.” Journalist Eleanor Clift, a longtime.
- 8/16/2016
- by Joshua Rich
- The Wrap
John McLaughlin this weekend missed his first hosting of The McLaughlin Group in more than 34 years, since the syndicated public affairs program made its debut on Jan. 1, 1982.
“I am under the weather,” McLaughlin explained in a note that prefaced this week’s telecast. His distinct, once-bellowing voice, heard in pre-taped intros, is “weaker than usual,” McLaughlin acknowledged. “Yet my spirit is strong and my dedication to the show remains absolute!”
Stepping in as this week’s host, Pat Buchanan noted the absence of the panel’s “distinguished leader” and, speaking on behalf of himself, Eleanor Clift, Clarence Page and Tom Rogan,...
“I am under the weather,” McLaughlin explained in a note that prefaced this week’s telecast. His distinct, once-bellowing voice, heard in pre-taped intros, is “weaker than usual,” McLaughlin acknowledged. “Yet my spirit is strong and my dedication to the show remains absolute!”
Stepping in as this week’s host, Pat Buchanan noted the absence of the panel’s “distinguished leader” and, speaking on behalf of himself, Eleanor Clift, Clarence Page and Tom Rogan,...
- 8/14/2016
- TVLine.com
The McLaughlin Group descended into chaotic crosstalk Sunday morning when the panel debated the merits of Mitt Romney's selection of Rep. Paul Ryan as his vice presidential nominee. The chaos began when panelist Eleanor Clift criticized Ryan as "the architect of the Bush Social Security privatization scheme. He also wants to eliminate all taxes on capital gains, wants to increase the defense spending. And this is all going to be accomplished with these unspecified cuts. Where are those cuts going to come from?"...
- 8/19/2012
- by Andrew Kirell
- Mediaite - TV
By Allen Gardner
The Samurai Trilogy (Criterion) Director Hiroshi Inagaki’s sprawling epic filmed from 1954-56 is an early Japanese Technicolor masterpiece, rivaling the scope of filmmakers like David Lean and Luchino Visconti. Toshiro Mifune, Japan’s greatest actor, stars as real-life swordsman, artist and writer Musashi Miyamoto, following his growth from callow youth to disciplined warrior. The three films: the Oscar winning “Musashi Miyamoto,” “Duel at Ichijoji Temple,” and “Duel at Ganryu Island” are an incredible story of human growth, tender love and sublime, blood-soaked action. Not to be missed. Also available on Blu-ray disc. Bonuses: Interviews with translator and historian William Scott Wilson; Trailers. Full screen. Dolby 1.0 mono.
The 39 Steps (Criterion) Alfred Hitchcock’s 1935 story of spies, conspiracies and sexual tension put him on the map on both sides of the Pond. Robert Donat stars as an innocent thrust into a deadly plot alongside a cool blonde (Madeleine Carroll...
The Samurai Trilogy (Criterion) Director Hiroshi Inagaki’s sprawling epic filmed from 1954-56 is an early Japanese Technicolor masterpiece, rivaling the scope of filmmakers like David Lean and Luchino Visconti. Toshiro Mifune, Japan’s greatest actor, stars as real-life swordsman, artist and writer Musashi Miyamoto, following his growth from callow youth to disciplined warrior. The three films: the Oscar winning “Musashi Miyamoto,” “Duel at Ichijoji Temple,” and “Duel at Ganryu Island” are an incredible story of human growth, tender love and sublime, blood-soaked action. Not to be missed. Also available on Blu-ray disc. Bonuses: Interviews with translator and historian William Scott Wilson; Trailers. Full screen. Dolby 1.0 mono.
The 39 Steps (Criterion) Alfred Hitchcock’s 1935 story of spies, conspiracies and sexual tension put him on the map on both sides of the Pond. Robert Donat stars as an innocent thrust into a deadly plot alongside a cool blonde (Madeleine Carroll...
- 7/9/2012
- by The Hollywood Interview.com
- The Hollywood Interview
It's been so long since the best series on television was airing (17 months!) that this new version of The Film Experience has never seen an episode of "Mad Men at the Movies". Last night the miserable sexy funny smart complex men and women of Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce returned to take us all back to the sixties once again. In this series we document the show's love affair with the cinema. Don Draper (Jon Hamm) is a movie buff and references tend to be sprinkled in for vintage flavor, character detailing and thematic resonance. Unfortunately this two hour premiere had no movie references. Damn!
5.1 "A Little Kiss, Part 1"
5.2 "A Little Kiss, Part 2"
The episode opened oddly with none of the familiar characters and a confrontation between African American picketers and immature men at an ad agency (not Scdp). By the time the episode ended, a small plot detail in the...
5.1 "A Little Kiss, Part 1"
5.2 "A Little Kiss, Part 2"
The episode opened oddly with none of the familiar characters and a confrontation between African American picketers and immature men at an ad agency (not Scdp). By the time the episode ended, a small plot detail in the...
- 3/27/2012
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
In case you had any doubts about "Mad Men's" impact on pop culture, look no further than the cover of the March 26 issue of Newsweek which not only features Don Draper & co. but is itself totally restyled to retro 1965 glory.
(And, no, that isn't an answer about in which year the new season will be set -- it's instead the year we left off in when the show wrapped up Season 4.)
The issue features an in-depth article about the show and the entire mag is peppered with ads for modern-day companies done in the '60s style of Sterling Cooper Draper Price.
Eleanor Clift, who actually worked as a writer at Newsweek in the 1960s, penned the cover story and talks about the similarities between herself and "Mad Men's" Peggy Olson (Elisabeth Moss) -- both ambitious women fighting to build a career in a man's world.
"Women weren't...
(And, no, that isn't an answer about in which year the new season will be set -- it's instead the year we left off in when the show wrapped up Season 4.)
The issue features an in-depth article about the show and the entire mag is peppered with ads for modern-day companies done in the '60s style of Sterling Cooper Draper Price.
Eleanor Clift, who actually worked as a writer at Newsweek in the 1960s, penned the cover story and talks about the similarities between herself and "Mad Men's" Peggy Olson (Elisabeth Moss) -- both ambitious women fighting to build a career in a man's world.
"Women weren't...
- 3/19/2012
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
Donald Trump is the latest Republican to bail out of the 2012 presidential race, joining Mike Huckabee and Haley Barbour. Doesn't anybody want the Gop nomination? Eleanor Clift on why the contest can't draw a crowd.
Running for president is not for the faint-hearted. The level of personal scrutiny is intense, the financial demands daunting, and the chance of winning iffy against a well-funded incumbent.
Related story on The Daily Beast: How Palin's Winning the Media War
Maybe Donald Trump thought he could pull it off. But his reality-show campaign ran smack into reality. The larger plotline is that Gop candidates are dropping like flies-three of them bailing out in the last month, others barely dipping a toe in the political waters.
For any Republican eyeing the primaries, the man to beat is Mitt Romney, who for all his flaws is still the frontrunner with lots of money in a party...
Running for president is not for the faint-hearted. The level of personal scrutiny is intense, the financial demands daunting, and the chance of winning iffy against a well-funded incumbent.
Related story on The Daily Beast: How Palin's Winning the Media War
Maybe Donald Trump thought he could pull it off. But his reality-show campaign ran smack into reality. The larger plotline is that Gop candidates are dropping like flies-three of them bailing out in the last month, others barely dipping a toe in the political waters.
For any Republican eyeing the primaries, the man to beat is Mitt Romney, who for all his flaws is still the frontrunner with lots of money in a party...
- 5/17/2011
- by Eleanor Clift
- The Daily Beast
In an address that offered a vigorous defense of liberal values and traditional entitlement programs, President Obama laid out his vision for a plan that would cut $4 trillion from the deficit over the next 12 years. Howard Kurtz, Eleanor Clift, John Avlon, Grover Norquist and more Daily Beast contributors weigh in.
How China Could Help Obama Win the Budget BattleBy Peter Beinart
Related story on The Daily Beast: Should We Hit Gaddafi Next?
The most innovative part of Obama's speech was how he used China. Americans know that China is doing well, in some ways better than us. They're afraid, and a little envious and Obama played into that: "Go to China and you'll see businesses opening research labs and solar facilities." He went on to talk about the new investments being made by governments like South Korea and Brazil. The message was clear: These countries that are sneaking up on...
How China Could Help Obama Win the Budget BattleBy Peter Beinart
Related story on The Daily Beast: Should We Hit Gaddafi Next?
The most innovative part of Obama's speech was how he used China. Americans know that China is doing well, in some ways better than us. They're afraid, and a little envious and Obama played into that: "Go to China and you'll see businesses opening research labs and solar facilities." He went on to talk about the new investments being made by governments like South Korea and Brazil. The message was clear: These countries that are sneaking up on...
- 4/13/2011
- by The Daily Beast
- The Daily Beast
In times of trouble, Obama often looks to his predecessors for guidance. In this week's Newsweek, Christopher Dickey and John Barry wonder amid such a pileup of disasters, crises, and wars, who's the best model?
When the world is in meltdown mode and everyone is looking to America's president for answers, where does he turn for advice, for reassurance, for the courage of his convictions and just the courage to make a decision?
Related story on The Daily Beast: Selling the Civil War to African Americans
One thing we do know about Obama: when the going gets tough, he goes to the library and pulls out the history of one predecessor or another. And so, to glean an idea of the enormous pressures those earlier presidents faced, and the ways in which they reached their most crucial decisions, we spoke to advisers who worked with some of them, and to...
When the world is in meltdown mode and everyone is looking to America's president for answers, where does he turn for advice, for reassurance, for the courage of his convictions and just the courage to make a decision?
Related story on The Daily Beast: Selling the Civil War to African Americans
One thing we do know about Obama: when the going gets tough, he goes to the library and pulls out the history of one predecessor or another. And so, to glean an idea of the enormous pressures those earlier presidents faced, and the ways in which they reached their most crucial decisions, we spoke to advisers who worked with some of them, and to...
- 3/21/2011
- by Christopher Dickey & John Barry
- The Daily Beast
With feisty Tea Partiers refusing to fall into line, House Speaker John Boehner is leaning on an unexpected ally: Nancy Pelosi. She reveals their odd coupling to Eleanor Clift.
The Tea Party helped elect the largest freshman class in six decades on the strength of their commitment to come to Washington and cut the deficit. When 54 House Republicans voted no on the latest stopgap budget measure to fund the government for three weeks, most people assumed these were the crusading freshmen determined to fulfill their promise to the voters. But they are wrong: only 20 of the 54 who voted no are part of the 87-member-strong class of 2010; the rest are more veteran members.
Related story on The Daily Beast: House Democrats Adjust to Life Without Power
"I watched the debate very carefully," Nancy Pelosi told a small group of reporters Wednesday afternoon. "New members are interested in cuts; more senior members are interested in riders,...
The Tea Party helped elect the largest freshman class in six decades on the strength of their commitment to come to Washington and cut the deficit. When 54 House Republicans voted no on the latest stopgap budget measure to fund the government for three weeks, most people assumed these were the crusading freshmen determined to fulfill their promise to the voters. But they are wrong: only 20 of the 54 who voted no are part of the 87-member-strong class of 2010; the rest are more veteran members.
Related story on The Daily Beast: House Democrats Adjust to Life Without Power
"I watched the debate very carefully," Nancy Pelosi told a small group of reporters Wednesday afternoon. "New members are interested in cuts; more senior members are interested in riders,...
- 3/16/2011
- by Eleanor Clift
- The Daily Beast
Despite the scary race to prevent two meltdowns in Japan, the man who led the Chernobyl response explains how advances in nuclear design and the swift response will prevent any damage along the lines of 1986 Soviet disaster. Plus, Josh Dzieza talks to a nuclear scientist about how bad the situation could get.
The partial meltdown of Reactor 3 at the Fukushima Daiichi power station is the most serious nuclear accident since Chernobyl, but Russian experts say the differences mercifully outweigh the similarities.
Related story on The Daily Beast: The Japanese Government's Appalling Earthquake Response
Indeed it may be thanks in part to the terrible legacy of the April 1986 disaster that Fukushima's meltdown can be contained. "The accident at Fukushima shows that experts around the world drew some important lessons from what happened at Chernobyl," said nuclear engineer Ilgiz Iskhatov, who was decorated for his role in containing the fallout of the Chernobyl blast.
The partial meltdown of Reactor 3 at the Fukushima Daiichi power station is the most serious nuclear accident since Chernobyl, but Russian experts say the differences mercifully outweigh the similarities.
Related story on The Daily Beast: The Japanese Government's Appalling Earthquake Response
Indeed it may be thanks in part to the terrible legacy of the April 1986 disaster that Fukushima's meltdown can be contained. "The accident at Fukushima shows that experts around the world drew some important lessons from what happened at Chernobyl," said nuclear engineer Ilgiz Iskhatov, who was decorated for his role in containing the fallout of the Chernobyl blast.
- 3/14/2011
- by Owen Matthews
- The Daily Beast
Japan's national nightmare-a devastating mix of earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear hazard-worsened on Sunday, with the death toll spiking to an estimated 10,000 residents. Rolling blackouts are planned to conserve energy, while officials are scrambling to fix problems with a second nuclear reactor. Lennox Samuels reports. Plus:
• A nuclear expert from MIT answers our pressing questions on Japan's nuclear fallout. How bad could it get?
Related story on The Daily Beast: America's Islamist Allies in Libya
• Eleanor Clift talks to Richard Thornburgh, the former Pennsylvania governor who oversaw America's worst nuclear crisis, at Three Mile Island in 1979.
• See shocking photos and videos from Japan's disaster zone, rounded up from social media feeds-cars washed away by floods, tremors at Tokyo's Disneyland, and more.
• Complete coverage of Japan's earthquake.
Japan's weekend of chaos continues as authorities in Japan labor to head off another nuclear-plant explosion that would leave them battling partial meltdowns in two...
• A nuclear expert from MIT answers our pressing questions on Japan's nuclear fallout. How bad could it get?
Related story on The Daily Beast: America's Islamist Allies in Libya
• Eleanor Clift talks to Richard Thornburgh, the former Pennsylvania governor who oversaw America's worst nuclear crisis, at Three Mile Island in 1979.
• See shocking photos and videos from Japan's disaster zone, rounded up from social media feeds-cars washed away by floods, tremors at Tokyo's Disneyland, and more.
• Complete coverage of Japan's earthquake.
Japan's weekend of chaos continues as authorities in Japan labor to head off another nuclear-plant explosion that would leave them battling partial meltdowns in two...
- 3/13/2011
- by Lennox Samuels
- The Daily Beast
Japan has been battered by an earthquake and tsunami, and now new nuclear threats have the nation in crisis mode. Officials say a "partial meltdown" was likely underway at a Fukushima facility on Sunday, and fears of radiation leakage at other plants have forced an evacuation of about 200,000 people in surrounding areas. Meanwhile, search and rescue operations are underway to find survivors. Japanese media estimate the current death toll to be as high as 1,700, but much worse figures are feared: One coastal town alone is missing 10,000 of its residents, and some of the hardest-hit areas had still not been reached by rescue crews as of early Sunday. The U.S. is sending helicopters as well as an aircraft carrier equipped to serve as a hospital. View our gallery below of wrenching images from the disaster. Plus:
• A nuclear expert from MIT answers our pressing questions on Japan's nuclear fallout. How bad could it get?...
• A nuclear expert from MIT answers our pressing questions on Japan's nuclear fallout. How bad could it get?...
- 3/12/2011
- by The Daily Beast
- The Daily Beast
As Japan races to avert a nuclear crisis, the governor who oversaw America's 1979 meltdown talks to Eleanor Clift on how he handled the disaster, his advice for Japanese officials, and the future of nuclear energy. Plus, shocking photos and videos from Japan and full coverage of the nuclear fallout.
Richard Thornburgh is watching the developments in Japan with a keen sense of déjà vu. He had been in office as Pennsylvania governor only 72 days when he was confronted with a potentially catastrophic event at the Three Mile Island nuclear reactor near Harrisburg. It was resolved without cost to human life, or the environment, which by no means is certain in Japan.
Related story on The Daily Beast: The Human Fallout for Japan
"I wouldn't want to be in their shoes," he said in an interview Saturday.
Photos: Japan's Earthquake
Thornburgh was having a breakfast meeting with legislators on the morning...
Richard Thornburgh is watching the developments in Japan with a keen sense of déjà vu. He had been in office as Pennsylvania governor only 72 days when he was confronted with a potentially catastrophic event at the Three Mile Island nuclear reactor near Harrisburg. It was resolved without cost to human life, or the environment, which by no means is certain in Japan.
Related story on The Daily Beast: The Human Fallout for Japan
"I wouldn't want to be in their shoes," he said in an interview Saturday.
Photos: Japan's Earthquake
Thornburgh was having a breakfast meeting with legislators on the morning...
- 3/12/2011
- by Eleanor Clift
- The Daily Beast
The Beltway outsider known for harsh critiques of Wall Street is working her way through 87 new Republican House members to win support for her new consumer agency. Eleanor Clift and Daniel Stone on her bridge-building campaign.
She is a lightning rod on the right, the Harvard professor who championed the creation of a Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Now, Elizabeth Warren is visiting with Republican freshmen in an effort to soften their animosity toward this expansion of government, which she now is turning into reality.
Related story on The Daily Beast: Obama's Head-in-the Sand Budget
Beginning with the half dozen freshmen who serve on the House Financial Services Committee, Warren is methodically working her way through the Gop's 87 new members, many of whom are among her harshest critics. They don't buy her argument that Wall Street greed was at the core of the financial collapse. [They blame such government-backed giants as Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, along with the Community Reinvestment Bank, for intentionally making risky loans so people could buy homes even when they couldn't afford the mortgage.]
Asked why she is seeking out these lawmakers,...
She is a lightning rod on the right, the Harvard professor who championed the creation of a Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Now, Elizabeth Warren is visiting with Republican freshmen in an effort to soften their animosity toward this expansion of government, which she now is turning into reality.
Related story on The Daily Beast: Obama's Head-in-the Sand Budget
Beginning with the half dozen freshmen who serve on the House Financial Services Committee, Warren is methodically working her way through the Gop's 87 new members, many of whom are among her harshest critics. They don't buy her argument that Wall Street greed was at the core of the financial collapse. [They blame such government-backed giants as Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, along with the Community Reinvestment Bank, for intentionally making risky loans so people could buy homes even when they couldn't afford the mortgage.]
Asked why she is seeking out these lawmakers,...
- 3/4/2011
- by Eleanor Clift & Daniel Stone
- The Daily Beast
The Fox News pundit's desire to make a good living, praise for the first lady, and candid answers about Afghanistan and granting clemency to a convict are not signs of a man bent on a 2012 campaign. "I don't think I'm the only person who can save America," he tells Howard Kurtz.
For those keeping score at home, here are five reasons why it doesn't look like Mike Huckabee is running for president:
Related story on The Daily Beast: Obama's Head-in-the Sand Budget
1. He admitted he has no idea what to do about Afghanistan.
2. He confessed that he wants to keep making a nice salary at Fox News.
3. He offered an impassioned defense of his decision to grant clemency to an Arkansas convict who went on to kill four police officers.
4. He has bulked up again and does not look in shape for political combat.
5. And, yes, he praised Michelle Obama.
For those keeping score at home, here are five reasons why it doesn't look like Mike Huckabee is running for president:
Related story on The Daily Beast: Obama's Head-in-the Sand Budget
1. He admitted he has no idea what to do about Afghanistan.
2. He confessed that he wants to keep making a nice salary at Fox News.
3. He offered an impassioned defense of his decision to grant clemency to an Arkansas convict who went on to kill four police officers.
4. He has bulked up again and does not look in shape for political combat.
5. And, yes, he praised Michelle Obama.
- 2/24/2011
- by Howard Kurtz
- The Daily Beast
In a speech to the Aei in D.C., the New Jersey governor charms his audience, pushing frugality, pressing his vision of change, and skewering Obama. But he's still not running for president, writes Eleanor Clift.
Leadership is about doing big things, says New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, who invoked the phrase in his State of the State address-some two weeks before President Obama voiced the same words to rally the country in his State of the Union address.
Related story on The Daily Beast: Obama's Head-in-the Sand Budget
Not that Christie thinks Obama stole his line, but the two men have different visions of what constitutes big things. Christie is focusing on budget reform, pension and health reform, and education reform, although "reform" is a euphemistic word for cutbacks. He's convinced the mood has changed enough in the country that the politicians who take on these once-sacred cows will be rewarded.
Leadership is about doing big things, says New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, who invoked the phrase in his State of the State address-some two weeks before President Obama voiced the same words to rally the country in his State of the Union address.
Related story on The Daily Beast: Obama's Head-in-the Sand Budget
Not that Christie thinks Obama stole his line, but the two men have different visions of what constitutes big things. Christie is focusing on budget reform, pension and health reform, and education reform, although "reform" is a euphemistic word for cutbacks. He's convinced the mood has changed enough in the country that the politicians who take on these once-sacred cows will be rewarded.
- 2/17/2011
- by Eleanor Clift
- The Daily Beast
Conservatives won big in the midterms by focusing on government, not social issues. But they seem to be going back to their old ways. Eleanor Clift reports from Cpac.
Conservatives won big in the midterm elections by focusing on big government and soaring deficits-setting aside, for the moment, the usual menu of divisive social issues.
Related story on The Daily Beast: February 21: 7 Best Moments from Sunday Talk
But the activists gathered this week in Washington for the annual Conservative Political Action Committee conference must not have gotten the memo about honing their strategy, or more likely, they can't help themselves now that they're back in power in the House. Cutting spending is hard, especially when the defense budget and Social Security and Medicare are deemed off-limits, because that's where the real money is. It's so much easier to rail against gay marriage and liberal elites wanting to take guns...
Conservatives won big in the midterm elections by focusing on big government and soaring deficits-setting aside, for the moment, the usual menu of divisive social issues.
Related story on The Daily Beast: February 21: 7 Best Moments from Sunday Talk
But the activists gathered this week in Washington for the annual Conservative Political Action Committee conference must not have gotten the memo about honing their strategy, or more likely, they can't help themselves now that they're back in power in the House. Cutting spending is hard, especially when the defense budget and Social Security and Medicare are deemed off-limits, because that's where the real money is. It's so much easier to rail against gay marriage and liberal elites wanting to take guns...
- 2/12/2011
- by Eleanor Clift
- The Daily Beast
Obama reached for the center, as Congress' "prom night" seating chart led to a civil, if subdued, reception. Will it help the Dems? Did Paul Ryan break through? Tunku Varadarajan, Peter Beinart, Eleanor Clift, Meghan McCain, and other Daily Beast contributors weigh in. Plus, watch video of the speech and read full transcript.
A Triumphantly Unmemorable AddressBy Tunku Varadarajan
Related story on The Daily Beast: Nice Rhetoric, but Need Real Results
Obama's speech shows he is a man newly aware of his limitations. Tunku Varadarajan on why that's a good thing.
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Obama Tries Out Bill Clinton's MessageBy Peter Beinart
Facing a Republican majority, the president had to drop his campaign-era themes for this State of the Union and pick up Clinton's-talking about "winning the future" to underscore his energy and youth. And it worked.
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A Grownup Speech to Please Folks at Home, Not PunditsBy Howard Kurtz
President Obama...
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A Grownup Speech to Please Folks at Home, Not PunditsBy Howard Kurtz
President Obama...
- 1/26/2011
- by The Daily Beast
- The Daily Beast
Truman in his slippers, the Kennedy grandchildren shivering through the speeches, the Kennedy siblings' impromptu lunch of soup and sandwiches-jfk intimates tell Eleanor Clift what they remember most from that snowy January day a half-century ago.
Weather forecasters had predicted light snow turning to rain on the eve of President Kennedy's inauguration, but the snow fell heavy and steady, covering Pennsylvania Avenue with an 8-inch white blanket and forcing the Army Corps of Engineers' snow-removal force to work through the night to clear the parade route. January 20, 1961, dawned sunny and cold, with gusty winds that made the 22 degrees registered at noon for the swearing-in feel like 7 degrees.
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It had just begun to snow when press aide Sue Vogelsinger made her way to the Mayflower Hotel to give Harry Truman an advance copy of the inaugural speech.
She found...
Weather forecasters had predicted light snow turning to rain on the eve of President Kennedy's inauguration, but the snow fell heavy and steady, covering Pennsylvania Avenue with an 8-inch white blanket and forcing the Army Corps of Engineers' snow-removal force to work through the night to clear the parade route. January 20, 1961, dawned sunny and cold, with gusty winds that made the 22 degrees registered at noon for the swearing-in feel like 7 degrees.
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It had just begun to snow when press aide Sue Vogelsinger made her way to the Mayflower Hotel to give Harry Truman an advance copy of the inaugural speech.
She found...
- 1/20/2011
- by Eleanor Clift
- The Daily Beast
Seventeen years ago, Carolyn McCarthy's husband and son were victims of a senseless shooting spree. Now in her eighth term in Congress, she tells Eleanor Clift about taking on the NRA in the wake of Jared Loughner.
The full impact didn't hit Carolyn McCarthy until the day after Gabrielle Giffords was shot, as she sat, riveted, watching a press conference with the medical team trying to save her House colleague's life.
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The scene brought back memories of a very similar press conference where doctors said her son had a 5 to 15 percent chance of surviving his head wound. The shooting in Tucson was, for McCarthy, another terrible reminder of the havoc and heartbreak that gun violence causes in America.
The New York congresswoman's husband was gunned down-and her son seriously injured-by a lone individual who had rampaged through the car they...
The full impact didn't hit Carolyn McCarthy until the day after Gabrielle Giffords was shot, as she sat, riveted, watching a press conference with the medical team trying to save her House colleague's life.
Related story on The Daily Beast: The Suddenly Quiet McCain
The scene brought back memories of a very similar press conference where doctors said her son had a 5 to 15 percent chance of surviving his head wound. The shooting in Tucson was, for McCarthy, another terrible reminder of the havoc and heartbreak that gun violence causes in America.
The New York congresswoman's husband was gunned down-and her son seriously injured-by a lone individual who had rampaged through the car they...
- 1/13/2011
- by Eleanor Clift
- The Daily Beast
Carla's cameo in the new Woody Allen film? Michelle's alleged frustrations with life in Washington? Eleanor Clift on possible conversation topics at today's midday meeting at the White House.
It is the ultimate ladies' lunch: Two accomplished women, married to heads of state, dining Monday at the White House. There's plenty to share if they dare, the difficulties their husbands face governing in trying times, and the frustrations each must feel in her assigned role as first lady. Michelle Obama and Carla Bruni-Sarkozy have met before on several occasions and have a lot in common, so there shouldn't be a shortage of things to talk about. They're both in their 40s, mothers of young children, lovers of fashion, and balancing public lives that may clash with their private aspirations.
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Each has had to adapt in her own way...
It is the ultimate ladies' lunch: Two accomplished women, married to heads of state, dining Monday at the White House. There's plenty to share if they dare, the difficulties their husbands face governing in trying times, and the frustrations each must feel in her assigned role as first lady. Michelle Obama and Carla Bruni-Sarkozy have met before on several occasions and have a lot in common, so there shouldn't be a shortage of things to talk about. They're both in their 40s, mothers of young children, lovers of fashion, and balancing public lives that may clash with their private aspirations.
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Each has had to adapt in her own way...
- 1/10/2011
- by Eleanor Clift
- The Daily Beast
As the Arizona congresswoman fights for survival after being shot in the head, Eleanor Clift recalls her comments a week ago-on nasty rhetoric and what it takes to be in Congress today.
Rep. Gabrielle Giffords is fighting for her life after being shot in the head at an event in Tucson Saturday. The news is stunning-all the more so because I was talking with her just a week ago, at Renaissance Weekend in Charleston, South Carolina, the annual gathering of self-improvers where Giffords and her astronaut husband, Captain Mark Kelly, have long been regulars.
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The sessions at Renaissance weekend feature pointed, if always polite, political reflection. They are off the record, but given Giffords' grave condition, I think it's worthwhile to recount some of what she said in the two panels that I shared with her.
Rep. Gabrielle Giffords is fighting for her life after being shot in the head at an event in Tucson Saturday. The news is stunning-all the more so because I was talking with her just a week ago, at Renaissance Weekend in Charleston, South Carolina, the annual gathering of self-improvers where Giffords and her astronaut husband, Captain Mark Kelly, have long been regulars.
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The sessions at Renaissance weekend feature pointed, if always polite, political reflection. They are off the record, but given Giffords' grave condition, I think it's worthwhile to recount some of what she said in the two panels that I shared with her.
- 1/8/2011
- by Eleanor Clift
- The Daily Beast
Iron Man 2 is nothing but tremendous fun. I can not in any way say it is a great film, but moviegoers who can sit back and let flashy entertainment course over them - to say nothing of Marvel enthusiasts - will have a big, fat, stupid grin on their face from the echoey audio over the studio logo til (after!) the closing credits. If Iron Man 2 does anything, it truly grafts the comic book reading experience onto a feature film.
The most positive examples of this are the characters. We follow Iron Man because we love Tony Stark and the others in his Universe. Robert Downey Jr. is every bit as awesome here as the first film. Gwyneth Paltrow is given much more screentime and proves herself a nimble comedienne. In one scene she is supposed to have a cold (never explained) and her nagging sounds precisely like...
The most positive examples of this are the characters. We follow Iron Man because we love Tony Stark and the others in his Universe. Robert Downey Jr. is every bit as awesome here as the first film. Gwyneth Paltrow is given much more screentime and proves herself a nimble comedienne. In one scene she is supposed to have a cold (never explained) and her nagging sounds precisely like...
- 5/5/2010
- UGO Movies
Are you looking for something to do tonight? How about taking in the controversial film from director Sebastian Doggart, American Faust: From Condi to Neo-Condi?
The film is beginning its theatrical run at the Starz FilmCenter in Denver. Alan Gilbert, one of Ms. Rice's professors from Denver University, will be holding a Q&A following the 7:20pm show tonight, Jan. 22.
American Faust's limited engagement ends on Jan. 28.
The film debuted at the Denver Film Festival in November.
For more information and tickets, check out the Denver Film Society and the official site.
American Faust overturns the popular misconception of Rice as a yes-woman to President Bush to reveal her as his most enduring confidante – and thus responsible for much of the Bush legacy. Through a political, biographical documentary, the film tells a Faustian story of a woman whose hubris tempted her into a pursuit of power that destroyed her...
The film is beginning its theatrical run at the Starz FilmCenter in Denver. Alan Gilbert, one of Ms. Rice's professors from Denver University, will be holding a Q&A following the 7:20pm show tonight, Jan. 22.
American Faust's limited engagement ends on Jan. 28.
The film debuted at the Denver Film Festival in November.
For more information and tickets, check out the Denver Film Society and the official site.
American Faust overturns the popular misconception of Rice as a yes-woman to President Bush to reveal her as his most enduring confidante – and thus responsible for much of the Bush legacy. Through a political, biographical documentary, the film tells a Faustian story of a woman whose hubris tempted her into a pursuit of power that destroyed her...
- 1/22/2010
- Denver Movies Examiner
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