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The Ten Commandments: The movie

Rotten Tomatoes says: "Bombastic and occasionally silly but extravagantly entertaining, Cecil B. DeMille's all-star spectacular is a muscular retelling of the great Bible story".

(Calgary, Alberta) - I was recently given a copy of Cecil B. DeMille's 1956 classic The Ten Commandments. I only ever saw it once--in 1956--and I thought it might be amusing to watch it fifty-six years later. My mistake.

It was DeMille's last movie and one of the most financially successful films ever made, grossing over $65 million at the US box office.

Top Gun Screening Will Benefit USS Ranger Project

The USS Ranger Foundation is working to place a retired supercarrier Ranger, in Fairview, Oregon on the Columbia River as a Community Heritage Center.

(MT HOOD, OR) - An event to celebrate the anniversary of the releases of Top Gun, which was filmed aboard the USS Ranger, will be held Sunday, the 6th of May 2012, from 12:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. at Mount Hood Theatre, 401 E. Powell Blvd, in Gresham, Oregon.

The event includes a raffle, silent auction, the screening of the movie, special guests and more.

`Hanoi Jane` Fonda Cast as Nancy Reagan for Movie

Some political moves are just too hard to forget.

(WASHINGTON DC) - Jane Fonda's sincerity is measured in her complete and total absorption by yuppie values, and now she is going to play Nancy Reagan?

In the NewsMax.com report below by Henry J. Reske, we see that the new career direction for this Vietnam War bomb straddler- who is said to have turned a note from an American POW into his Communist North Vietnamese captors, will be a very different role for Fonda.

Video Explores Suspected Murder of Marine Colonel James Sabow

Jim Sabow was a career Marine, a Harrier pilot, third in command of El Toro, and he wasn't going to allow the illegal drug running to keep taking place on his base.

(EL TORO, Calif.) - In early 1991, something happened at the El Toro Marine air base that was so bad, so shameful, that it will not go away.

It's the highly controversial death of Marine Colonel James Sabow. A fighter pilot, a hero of the Vietnam War, a man considered by those who knew him, to be 'general material'.

`US will stop funding Israeli crimes`

We can't waffle, we can't grovel anymore. It's time for America to stand up to the Zionist apartheid regime.

(TEHRAN / BEIRUT) - A prominent political lawyer says that the US cannot continue to supply arms or economic aid to Israel who is under international pressure for its atrocities against humanity.

In an exclusive interview with Press TV, Franklin Lamb, international lawyer, tells us more about the future of the US-Israeli relationship.

This Occupation is Brought to You by A Pattern of Racial Bigotry

Did we go to war against Iraq and Afghanistan because we believed the lies of the Bush Administration? In part we did, but it was also a military decision influenced by the goals of the State of Israel.

(CHICAGO) - Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the US Congress, is withholding basic heath care from children who live in the world’s largest outdoor prison, the Palestinian Occupied Territories.

Specifically, Congresswoman Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.) “is keeping her House of Representatives committee from considering approval of $192 million in humanitarian program assistance”.

Original Copies of Michael Jackson`s `Moonwalker` Discovered

One of the most sought after Michael Jackson relics is unearthed.

(STUDIO CITY, Calif.) - A rare copy of Michael Jackson’s Moonwalker film featuring the iconic dance sequence of Smooth Criminal was located this week in Studio City, California.

Amy Redman, a raw stock broker who worked with Moonwalker’s director for years, came forward with three reels of film that contain over 30 minutes of footage.

81 House Members Enjoy Hiatus In Israel

The Washington Post provides the names of only three Democratic travelers...

(CHICAGO) - Eighty-one members of the US House of Representatives—about 20 percent of the total membership—are enjoying a late summer week-long, all-expenses paid trip to Israel.

This hasbara (propaganda) trip happens every other summer (in non-election years), but this year’s excursion to the shores of the Mediterranean Sea comes at a time when voters back home are not thinking about Israel. They are worried about their under-water mortgages and disappearing 401Ks.

`I Got Vision and the Rest of the World Wears Bifocals`

If a single phrase could capture the sentiment that motivated thousands of Arabs to try to cross Israel’s borders on Sunday to “retake Palestine” from the Jews, it would be this: Yes, we can. - Uriel Heilman writing from Tel Aviv

(CHICAGO) - Butch Cassidy is talking to the Sundance Kid: ”Boy, I got vision, and the rest of the world wears bifocals.”

The line comes in one of many memorable moments in the 1967 film, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, starring Paul Newman as Butch, and Robert Redford as the Kid.

Mortenson Remains Unconfirmed for Telluride`s Mountainfilm

The festival focus on making each screening into a special event

(TELLURIDE) - Greg Mortenson, the controversial author of “Three Cups of Tea” was once scheduled to appear at the 2011 Mountainfilm but now is missing from the roster of announced speakers.

Filmmaker Tom Shadyac and activist Tim Dechristopher are two of the better known confirmed speakers among at least a dozen high profile experts discussing the twin topics of “Awareness into Action” and “Image into Action.”