'MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE'....

[Kooperman]

"I cannot recall when Hollywood last released a big-budget mainstream feature film as partisan as this one at the height of a presidential campaign."

So believes NY TIMES's Frank Rich about the upcoming PARAMOUNT thriller MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE.

"Freed from any obligations to fact, MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE can play far dirtier than FAHRENHEIT 911," writes Rich in a column set for release this Sunday, newsroom sources tell DRUDGE.

"This movie could pass for the de facto fifth day of the [Democrat] convention itself."

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"The American people are terrified," says Streep's villainous senator early on as, John Ashcroft-style, she wields a national security report promising "another cataclysm, probably nuclear." And so we watch her and the rest of the Manchurian Global cabal exploit that fear in any way possible, using the mass media as a brainwashing tool, manipulating patriotic iconography for political ends. "Compassionate vigilance" is one campaign slogan. A televised election night rally features a Mount Rushmore backdrop (as in a signature Bush photo op) and a chorus line of heroic cops and firemen (reminiscent of the early Bush-Cheney ads exploiting the carnage at ground zero)."

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[Kooperman]

Manchurian Candidate pumps politics

Tue Jul 20, 9:19 PM ET

David Rooney, STAFF

NEW YORK -- Politics and presidential elections were on everyone's lips at Monday's Gotham preem of "The Manchurian Candidate."

"This is a movie about political brainwashing, and we're right back there again now," said director Jonathan Demme. "I hope it has the potential for stimulating people to start thinking about the process because Lord knows we could use some stimulation," he added.

"It raises lots of questions and gets us thinking about assassinations and other things we went through and were traumatized by in the '60s," said Jon Voight, who plays a liberal senator bumped out of the vice presidential candidacy.

Even score collaborator Wyclef Jean and his band, who performed an exuberant set at the swanky uptown Metropolitan Club after-bash, displayed a political bent with his song "If I Was President."

Also avoiding escape at the Beekman Theater premiere were stars Denzel Washington, Meryl Streep, Jeffrey Wright and Kimberly Elise; producer Tina Sinatra (whose father starred in the original); as well as Paramount's Sherry Lansing and Viacom chief Sumner Redstone.

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[nate]

fiction is the best way to reach people

you make the dots and the viewer/reader connects them for you