From Academy Award nominated filmmaker, Charles Ferguson (“No End In Sight”), comes INSIDE JOB, the first film to expose the shocking truth behind the economic crisis of 2008. The global financial meltdown, at a cost of over $20 trillion, resulted in millions of people losing their homes and jobs.
Through extensive research and interviews with major financial insiders, politicians and journalists, INSIDE JOB, made on location in the United States, Iceland, England, France, Singapore, and China, traces the rise of a rogue industry and unveils the corrosive relationships which have corrupted politics, regulation and academia.
An excerpt from the video of George Carlin’s comedy routine called “Life Is Worth Losing.”
There’s a reason education sux and will never get better…
“Because the owners of this country don’t want that, the real owners, the big wealthy business owners who own everything and make all the important decisions.”
Key Line: “Forget the politicians. Politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice. You don’t. You have no choice. You have owners…”
“It’s called the American Dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it.”
MrAndyWhorehall is in Post Production, Release Date to Be Announced
It should be released later this year by Vagabond Films. For more information, check out the Website at DustRadioMovie.
Christopher Becker Whitley (August 31, 1960 – November 20, 2005) was an American blues singer-songwriter and guitarist.
Highly acclaimed by critics, Whitley achieved modest mainstream success, but had a devoted following. Whitley’s style was rooted primarily in blues, but drew on an array of influences and was constantly changing. In 2001, the New York Times described his arc as “restless, moving into noise-rock and minimalist jazz evoking Chet Baker and Sonic Youth as much as Robert Johnson”.
In fall 2005, Whitley cancelled his tour due to health issues. Dan Whitley, his brother, revealed on November 11, 2005 that he was “in a comfortable warm home with hospice care at his disposal”. Later that week it was revealed that Whitley was terminally ill with lung cancer. He died on November 20, 2005; his brother, Dan, and daughter, Trixie, publicly announced his passing.
Sometimes a legal summation can capture a story better on video than any editorial column…
Notice we have the ability to deliver messages in this way on the Web Press.
I am sitting here attempting to watch Toyota defend itself before Congress for it’s dangerous cost-cutting in production that led to massive safety issues with the Japanese auto giant’s cars, and it reminds me of the final episode of Boston Legal. You may remember how the litigation division of Denny Crane’s law firm fought off a takeover by the Chinese. Couldn’t find that episode on YouTube, but this is one of the best closing argument speeches from the show.
Looking for the muse, just re-watched this movie about a book, not a song…
A Love Song for Bobby Long, a 2004 American drama film written and directed by Shainee Gabel and based on the novel Off Magazine Street by Ronald Everett Capps, was shot on location in New Orleans and Gretna, Louisiana while I lived in the city from 2000-2004. It was released in December, 2004.
The story combines elements of characters and stories from Tennessee Williams and William Faulkner. It focuses on 18-year-old Purslane Will, who leaves the Florida trailer park where she lives with her abusive boyfriend to return to her hometown of New Orleans following the drug overdose death of her jazz singer mother Lorraine, a free spirit she hadn’t seen for several years.
The girl is startled to discover one-time Auburn University professor of literature Bobby Long and his protégé and former teaching assistant, struggling writer Lawson Pines, living in her dilapidated childhood home. Both men are heavy drinkers who while away their days smoking numerous cigarettes, quoting Dylan Thomas, Benjamin Franklin, and T.S. Eliot, playing chess, and spending time with the neighbors while Bobby strums a guitar and sings melancholy country-folk songs.
The case included John Travolta as Bobby Long, Scarlett Johansson as Purslane Will, Gabriel Macht as Lawson Pines, Deborah Kara Unger as Georgianna and Clayne Crawford .as Lee.
They say hindsight is 20-20, but somehow we have to remember these lessons from history and use them to NOT repeat our mistakes. What if some smart Democrat activist had thought to make a TV commercial out of this scene from popular culture against George W. Bush in 2004?
I doubt if any amount of election theft could have helped him get re-elected. Imagine turning the country against him on the line, “you are either with me or against me.”
That is what an insane king, a dictator or a dark lord would say — not the leader of the world’s supposedly greatest democracy…
The Hollywood buzz is, this could be one of the best movies this year…
Four-time Academy Award nominee Jeff Bridges stars as the richly comic, semi-tragic romantic anti-hero Bad Blake in the debut feature film “Crazy Heart” from writer-director Scott Cooper. Also starring Maggie Gyllenhaal and Robert Duvall, it is scheduled to be released in theaters December 16.
Bad Blake is a broken-down, hard-living country music singer who’s had way too many marriages, far too many years on the road and one too many drinks way too many times. And yet, Bad can’t help but reach for salvation with the help of Jean (Maggie Gyllenhaal), a journalist who discovers the real man behind the musician. As he struggles down the road of redemption, Bad learns the hard way just how tough life can be on one man’s crazy heart.
During the Bush years, we specialized in covering the politicization of the U.S. justice system as much as any news organization. Our archives are about the most comprehensive for anyone researching the prosecution of former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman, and the original case against Richard Scrushy, which Glynn Wilson covered for The New York Times.
