Once again, there will be a special session on “LOST” as part of this year’s fall Hawaii International Film Festival: Television as the New Cinema With diminishing returns at the U.S. box-office for past few years, flooded by one lousy packaged TV remake after another, and the disintegration of theater etiquette, movie-going is no longer [...]

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As the Mark Foley scandal (a.k.a. “PageGate”) continues to suck Republicans into its hungry maw, party leaders and their conservative backers have been scrambling for a scapegoat that isn’t one of their own. The initial explanation offered was Foley’s struggle with alcoholism, and the strategy was to paint him as a troubled man who needs [...]

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