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Re: Fred's Paradox

By on 7.31.07 @ 8:37AM

Wlady: yep. Thing about movies, you get as many takes as you want, you can shoot the story completely out of order, 'fix it in post.' Could it be that American politics, in spite of the advertising budgets, the blast faxes, the email lists, the YouTubery, still centers around very old-fashioned theater?

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