Red Dawn is being remade, but China ousts Russia as America’s new enemy
A remake of the 1984 cold war teen action film says much about America’s fear of its declining influence in the world The film was a classic piece of 1980s teen cinema framed against the paranoid geopolitics of the cold war. Red Dawn starred Patrick Swayze and Charlie Sheen as all-American teens leading an armed resistance movement against Soviet troops who had invaded the US. Feeding on …
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Liverpool Fans Burn The Stars And Stripes: Yanks For Nothing
RAFA Benitez has left Liverpool. Cancel the chorizo. And in Liverpool, the fans vent their collective spleen against American owners George Gillett Jr and Tom Hicks…
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Bicycle challenge tour benefits Special Olympics
Cyclists are signing up in surprising numbers to loop across two of the newest bay-spanning bridges in the area, the Carquinez and Martinez-Benicia bridges, on June 6 in the Bike the Bridges, a first-ever fundraiser for Special Olympics.
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Israeli FM proposes inquiry with foreign observers
Israel, deflecting a UN demand for an international investigation, proposed Thursday an Israeli inquiry with the participation of outside observers into its lethal seizure of a Gaza-bound Turkish ship.
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New MTV Movie Awards Promo: Taylor Lautner Refuses His Double
Beside the video featuring the ‘ Twilight ‘ hunk, there is another promo clip for the event which sees Tom Cruise spoofing his iconic scene from ‘Risky Business’.
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