by Cliff Vaughn | Oct 8, 2002 | News
President Bush used the word “weapons” several dozen times last night to make the case for possible military action against Iraq. His speech in Cincinnati came one year after Bush ordered the first military strikes in Afghanistan. The roughly 3,300-word...
by Cliff Vaughn | Oct 4, 2002 | News
Cable channel FX has announced it will carry a new reality series in 2004 that will allow TV viewers to choose a “people’s candidate” for the American presidency. “More than four decades after the Nixon-Kennedy debates forever altered the...
by Cliff Vaughn | Sep 13, 2002 | Opinion
Many have chronicled or memorialized the event and the four girls who lost their lives: 14-year-olds Carole Robertson, Cynthia Wesley and Addie Mae Collins, and 11-year-old Denise McNair. Birmingham News reporter Frank Sikora wrote a book. Spike Lee produced a...
by Cliff Vaughn | Sep 5, 2002 | Opinion
Movie executives and industry commentators are of course calling “My Big Fat Greek Wedding” the “surprise hit” of the summer. That’s accurate but distressing, for we shouldn’t be surprised that an actual story well-told on film will...
by Cliff Vaughn | Aug 30, 2002 | News
“9/11 was such a perfect breeding ground for erumors because it was not only massive, but there was so much uncertainty associated with it,” Buhler said. “We weren’t sure who did it, whether more was coming. It was nebulous.” Sincere...