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Osama Bin Laden

a feminist film critic defends the Onion’s Quvenzhané Wallis tweet

Mon, Feb 25, 2013
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Yeah, I’m going there.

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Zero Dark Thirty (review)

Thu, Jan 10, 2013
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If only this were a wholly fictional story, I could get behind it 100 percent, instead of the 95 percent I can give.

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question of the day: What moment of television during your lifetime has been the most dramatic, or had the most impact on you?

Thu, Jul 12, 2012
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Mine is definitely 9/11, followed closely by the Challenger explosion. Both of those events had me riveted to the television for days and made me feel personally impacted…

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question of the weekend: Should gruesome photos of famous dead people be plastered all over the media?

Sat, Oct 22, 2011
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It’s not just dead villains prompting the question — now it’s cropping up around the death of Michael Jackson…

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even warfare is a game of branding and PR these days

Thu, Jun 30, 2011
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The guys at the Onion must be kicking themselves for not having come up with this first…

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Osama bin Laden and Groucho Marx: separated at birth?

Sat, May 07, 2011
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The newly released video of Osama bin Laden apparently rehearsing one of his jihad messages makes me think of a bit from Duck Soup…

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Osama bin Laden on Twitter; no black people at the royal wedding, duh; DVD sales are plummeting; more: leftover links

Sat, May 07, 2011
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Plus: Where are the women of summer? Is ‘Doctor Who’ violating a new BBC ban on product placement? Is ‘Glee’ turning kids gay?

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question of the weekend: Is it okay to celebrate the death of an enemy?

Sat, May 07, 2011
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In a way, I’m glad I wasn’t in New York for the news of the death of Osama bin Laden last weekend. The chanting and the flag waving and the celebrating was so distasteful just watching it on TV from across th Atlantic…

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female gazing at: Anthony Mackie

Wed, May 04, 2011
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Apparently the Twitter is all, “Hey, Anthony Mackie should play Obama in the bin Laden movie.” So we’ll gaze upon Mackie in honor of this…

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question of the day: How will Hollywood react to the death of Osama bin Laden?

Tue, May 03, 2011
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Be afraid: The bin-Laden-is-dead movie may well be the cinematic equivalent of what we saw on the streets of New York and Washington on Sunday night: guys in baseball caps waving giant American flags and hooting “USA! USA! USA!”…

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