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From Orange County to Poston, Arizona: An Ugly Chapter in American History

Today is the 64th anniversary of a dark day in American history. On February 19, 1942, President Franklin Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, giving the Secretary of War the authority to declare any area of the United States a military area “from which any or all persons may be excluded”and authorizing the internment of what …

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Letters

Letters may be edited for clarity and length. E-mail to le*****@oc******.com , or send to Letters to the Editor, c/o OC Weekly, 1666 N. Main St., Ste. 500, Santa Ana, CA 92701. Or fax to (714) 550-5908. FORD TOUGH Why must people be so lame? In his review of Firewall, Michael Atkinson claims that Harrison …

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New Reviews

WE RECOMMEND: NEIL YOUNG: HEART OF GOLD See Film feature. (Edwards University, Irvine) TRISTRAM SHANDY: A COCK AND BULL STORY See Film feature. (Century Stadium, Orange) ALSO OPENING this week: DATE MOVIE This anemic genre parody from “two of the six writers of Scary Movie” strives for the goofball precision of the brothers Zucker and, …

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Howard's Beginning

When Bryce Dallas Howard was 4 years old, a clod she'd never met handed her a script to slip to her father. One year later, Ron Howard and his writer wife, Cheryl, moved from Los Angeles to rural Connecticut, where their four kids enjoyed childhoods shielded from Hollywood crassness. Bryce, who gets her middle name from …

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Good Old Boy

To get to the La Cancha de San Saba polo field just outside of West Palm Beach, Florida, you must first get off the highway, cross over a canal and amble a half-mile or so down an unpaved frontage road before you see the large red barn looming in the distance. Named after the West …

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WE RECOMMEND: MANDERLAY The Hollywood studios where Australian-born director Roger Donaldson has spent much of his career toiling away on competent but undistinguished assignments (The Recruit,Dante's Peak,Speciesand the immortal Cocktail) would never have ponied up for this passion project about a determined old codger who ends up breaking the world's land-speed record on a 1920s …

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WE RECOMMEND: NANNY McPHEE Emma Thompson's first screenwriting effort since the Oscar-winning Sense and Sensibility is another literary adaptation, allegedly of Christianna Brand's Nurse Matilda books. But honestly: a Victorian setting, ill-behaved children, a distant father, and a magical nanny? It's Mary Poppins, if there were seven children instead of two and all were evil …

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We Agree with Hugh Hewitt–But He's Still an Ass

Uber-blogger/radio host Hugh Hewitt doesn't like a lot of things: liberals, liberal journalists, liberal movies, liberal societal mores–and now, liberal oldies. Hewitt tells readers on Jan. 3 that KRTH-FM 101.1's Top 300 Songs of All Time countdown over the New Year's weekend was the “Worst Top 300 List Ever”. We agree: any oldies list that …

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New Film Reviews

WE RECOMMEND: GRANDMA'S BOY The earlier, funnier Adam Sandler comedies had a sweetly crazy allure that combined frat-house high jinks with a wholesome, join-the-party vibe. That recipe seems to have been tossed out by Sandler of late, but its essence is recaptured—and even improved upon—by Sandler crony Allen Covert, the star, producer and co-writer of …

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We recommend:  BLUFFMASTER This glossy Bollywood crime thriller, directed by Rohan Sippy (Kuch Naa Kaho), is an enjoyable romantic comedy (with hip-hop–flavored song-and-dance numbers) about a dashing con artist pulling off the biggest sting of his career—and getting stung right back. Recent attempts at this sort of thing in the West, such as Confidence and …

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