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Obviously, it is very, very early to discuss the shape of the 2012 presidential campaign, and a great deal could--and probably will--happen between now and then to scramble the current political narrative. Still, I have two questions regarding the possible contours of the race on the Republican side, one narrow and one broad. READ MORE >>

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Well, no, there won't be any Airing of Grievances or Feats of Strength. But for anyone who might be in the vicinity of Easton, Maryland on Sunday night at 7 p.m., I'll be introducing the closing film of the Chesapeake Film Festival, After the Thin Man. The 1936 feature is the second of the Thin Man movies and, in addition to the inimitable chemistry (romantic and mixological) of leads William Powell and Myrna Loy, it offers a memorable early performance by one James Stewart. READ MORE >>

"Hell is a teenage girl," Jennifer's Body announces in its opening moments. But the film's thesis is really more particular: Hell is a teenage girl who has been unsuccessfully sacrificed to Satan by an alt-rock band and, as a result, finds that she has become a flesh-eating demon. It's a difficult case to contest. READ MORE >>

It's only Wednesday, but the honor surely goes to Noah Millman at The American Scene for this doozy: I Want to Keep the Crazies Inside the Tent - and Pissing on the Sleeping Bags The item itself is good as well, and takes its titular metaphor just about as far as it can go. READ MORE >>

So declared Dan Brown at the launch party for his new book The Lost Symbol. In a related literary observation, he noted that "The best part of a novel is the interior dialogue"--I think he means "monologue" here--"that you don't get in a movie or in actual life." Of course, you do get it in movies that feature voiceover and, in "actual life," if your own thoughts are accessible to you. Still, I take his point. READ MORE >>

Paramount Pictures will, that's who. The studio has released a trailer for its micro-indie horror flick Paranormal Activity--made for a reported $11,000--and the footage focuses less on the film itself than on a test audience's reaction to it:    READ MORE >>

The conservative echo chamber continues to play "telephone" with its estimates of the crowds at the 9/12 protest. Follow along: 1) On his radio show yesterday, Glenn Beck claimed that the London Telegraph "quote[d] a source from the Park Service, the National Park Service, saying that it is the largest march on Washington ever." READ MORE >>

Rod Dreher, a genuine social and religious conservative whose disagreements with President Obama are more profound and more numerous than those of most Republicans, has nonetheless had enough: READ MORE >>