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January
8, 2002
Joan Hoff
The
Nixon You Haven't Heard
January
7, 2002
Lawrence
McGuire
Confusing
Economic Tales About Argentina
Wael Masri
They
Are Taking
Our Rights Away
Philip
Farruggio
Better
Medicine
January
6, 2002
Ralph
Nader
Students
Put the Heat on Foreign Sweatshops
Tariq
Ali
Battleground
Kashmir
January
5, 2002
Mark Schneider
Kifah:
The Movie Star
Israel Killed
Edward
Said
Is
Israel More Secure Now?
January
4, 2002
CG Estabrook
Anti-War
= Anti-Globalization
Jordan
Green
What's
Changed in New York
January
3, 2002
Walt Brasch
Exit
Cheney, Enter Ridge
Mokhiber
and Weissman
The
10 Worst Corporations
of 2001
Robert
Hunter Wade
America's
Empire Rules an Unbalanced World
Shahid
Alam
Is
There an Islamic Problem?
January
2, 2002
Ross Regnart
Patriot
Act Redefines the Mob as "Terrorist Associates"
John Chuckman
The
Republicans' Secret Plan X
David
Vest
Turn,
Turn, Turn
January
1, 2002
Kathy
Kelly
Iraq's
New Year
December
31, 2001
John Absood
An
Alternative to War in Iraq
Ramzi
Kysia
Iraq
Goes Radioactive
December
28, 2001
John Chuckman
Observing
George Bush
Suren
Pillay
Civilian
Bodies
Aaron
Lehmer
Inviting
Future Terrorism
December
27, 2001
Patrick
McNamara
Palestinian
Children Bear Brunt of Mideast Violence
Nelson
Valdés
A
Possible Scenario on the Location of bin Laden
Jensen
and Mahajan
Remember
the Afghan Dead
Philip
Farruggio
A
New Year's Resolution
Ramzi
Kysia
The
People of the Valley
December 26, 2001
John Chuckman
In
Praise of the Unspeakable
Sam Bahour
2002:
Year of the Twos
December 25, 2001
Jennifer Loewenstein
Israel's
Human Rights Record
December 24, 2001
Sam Bahour
It
Happened One Morning
Yair Khilou
Why I Resisted
Being Drafted into the Israeli Army
Michael
Chisari
War
as Diversionary Tactic
Cockburn/St. Clair
Enron
and the Green Seal
A Photographic Journal of Life
in an Afghan Refugee Camp
By Judith Mann
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January 8, 2002
STING LIKE A B-52
By Prudence Crowther
"We're trying not to be the poodle
of the White House," Mr. Valenti said. "If it looks
like you're under government supervision, you lose all of the
integrity of the message."
--"Hollywood Enlists Ali's Help
to Explain War to Muslims," New York Times, 12/23/01
H'WD 9/11 "ALI":
60 TV
VIDEO: MED-WIDE SHOT:
MUHAMMAD ALI sits in an armchair on a
porch set. He wears a credible white plush polyester polar fleece
robe with a shawl collar, locker loops, and roomy pockets. Resists
pilling and provides warmth without bulk for only $72.50.
On a small table to his right is a copy of the Koran and
a can of COKE.
MUSIC: [Aretha Franklin]
"You better think (THINK!)
Think about what you tryin' to do to me
You better think (THINK!)
Let your mind go, let yourself be free..."
CUT TO: WIDE-SHOT:
To left of porch set, CHARLOTTE BEERS
and JACK VALENTI beam and sway rhythmically, more or less
MUSIC:
"Let's go back
Let's go back
Let's go way on way back when"
[fade out]
VIDEO: [stock footage, slow motion]
ALI in the ring, gloved hands punching
the air in triumph. Handler reaches up and removes Ali's MOUTH
GUARD. [Freeze frame]
ALI (V/O):
"We been hearin' you angry
Can't stand our guts
Say our foreign policy
Is a big kick in the nuts
"Well I'm here to assure you
the American Way
Can unilaterally
Carry the day.
"We don't need no World Court
To sanction our moves
Man, that's Mickey Mouse
-Like payin' U.N. dues!
"Remember our record
in poor Niggeragua?
Those cats woulda done better
On the wrong end of a fatwa.
"An' don't get me goin'
On the story in Honduras
Now Negroponte's in the henhouse-
May Allah preserve us!"
CUT TO: TWO-SHOT:
BEERS and VALENTI look troubled, then
examine their shooting scripts.
CUT TO: CLOSE-UP
ALI on porch, in a groove:
"Keep one eye on Bush, though
He Crusader Rabbit!
Got ten-gallon values-
A real jive-ass Babbit
"Get down
with his program?
Import plenty of Wheaties
Stay hooked on McDonald's
Go for adult diabetes.
"But don't forget oil, now
Or slack off on pumpin'
Cuz our 'tosterone stalls, Slick,
When our sport utes stop humpin'
" 'Hey kids, let's make the globe
safe
for more Hollywood crap!'"
CUT TO: TWO-SHOT:
frantic BEERS on cell phone; VALENTI
sprints toward camera with drop cloth
ALI:
Aw, Jack, I may endorse COKE
But I'm no fuckin' SAP-
CUT TO: BLACKOUT
MUSIC: [Franklin]
"ain't no psychi'trist
Ain't no doctor with degrees
But it don' take too much time
To see what you tryin' to do to me.
"You better think (THINK!)"
Prudence Crowther lives in New York City.
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