The hidden message in Jawbreaker: Kill one for the Gipper!
By James DiGiovanna
LOOKING AT THE roster of teen films populating the cineplexes
in the last few months, one would think we had all been transported
back to the mid- 80s. The most recent foray into this Clearasil-and-peach-fuzz
arena is
Jawbreaker, which bests
She s All That
and
Varsity Blues in the extent to which it has been critically
reviled. Mike Clark, the reviewer for respected journalistic daily
USA Today, was appalled enough to dub it this nastiness. Critics usually hate a film for one of two reasons; 1) it actually
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The US senator John Warner, who has died aged 94, was for a time best known for his brief marriage to the Hollywood star Elizabeth Taylor. Craggy of face and crusty of manner, he was central casting’s very image of a conservative Republican senator – dedicated champion of a big navy in the Nixon administration and later a leading advocate of strategic missile defence as chair of the powerful Senate armed services committee.
Warner became the swing vote in the great debate over American withdrawal from Iraq when the Republican party lost control of Congress in 2006. His influence was crucial because he had always seemed an utterly reliable supporter of the military and so, after the 2006 midterm elections, the ability of the Democrats to force President George W Bush to withdraw from Iraq was seen to turn on the decision of this one man.
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