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The Freedom Fighter's Journal (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
... one congressman thinks so. The main article linked to below quotes a Democrat who compares her to Alec Guiness's sun-addled colonel in the classic film Bridge Over the River Kwai. But the World War II film that comes to my mind is A Bridge Too Far. A story in the LA Times surveys the effect of the election on the chances of the health-care bill and comes to a similar conclusion: that...
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bookeywookey (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Which do you prefer? Biographies written about someone? Or Autobiographies written by the actual person (and/or ghost-writer)? Memoirs can be wonderful. To hear the writing voice of someone you know for something else, acting or politics, and to see what it is they choose to show of themselves can be very revealing. Alec Guiness has written a couple of wonderful volumes about himself,...
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JCooney.NET (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
... around 12:00. V is the inspirational film that keeps me going until xmas, when the Albert Finney/Alec Guiness version of “A Christmas Carrol“ (especially the first half) re-fills the well of good feelings for another year.
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Thomas P.M. Barnett :: Weblog (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
... a pale version of the old man--story-wise. Plus Ewan McGregor's Obi Wan is more interesting than Alec Guiness's, and Yoda is just so much richer a character in the first trio than in the second. I just found myself really let down by the second trio when viewed after the first. I think it's because, when Lucas did the first trio, he had all the resources and time to do it his way....
