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Albert Auster

Hollywood and the “Forever War.”

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In his book length journalistic accounts of the Iraq war (2003-2011) and the Afghanistan war (2001-the present) Dexter Filkins, who covered those conflicts for the New York Times and now writes for The New Yorker, referred to them in his title as the “Forever War (2008)” Clearly, that is how those wars must feel to…

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Hollywood’s African-American Films Since 2012

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It seems such a long time ago since the “Beer Summit,” of 2009. When President Obama sat down with Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates and Cambridge Police sergeant James Crowley. The Summit occurred after Crowley, had arrested Gates for breaking and entering his own home. Although it was a minor though toxic incident, it appeared…

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