I try to keep President Trump out of film reviews, I really do. But in documentaries, especially the ones that purport to explore the Way We Live Now, 45’s presence is unavoidable. Eugene Jarecki’s The King is ostensibly a doc about the legacy of Elvis Presley, but it’s also an American travelogue circa 2016, and it can’t help but catalog the fissures of the year’s … [Read more...]
James Carville urges fellow liberals to ‘fight like hell’
James Carville came to the Miami Book Fair on Monday night, and he was, as you might imagine, fighting mad. A longtime Democratic political consultant close to the Clintons, he did not look like or talk like a man willing to give President-elect Donald Trump a chance. “This country is going to get the best ninth-grade civics education ever,” Carville said. “We are in … [Read more...]