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Warner Bros. Nixes Anti-War Documentary

Filmmaker David O. Russell planned to distribute a new anti-war documentary along with an upcoming Warner Bros. DVD release of his 1999 movie "Three Kings." But studio executives now say his finished documentary isn't what they had in mind, so they're giving it back to him.

The move by Warner Bros. is notable in a year when the Walt Disney Co. cited political sensitivity for its refusal to distribute Michael Moore's blockbuster "Fahrenheit 9/11."

[...] The heads of Warner Bros. rejected the documentary this week, The New York Times reported Thursday, saying it was inappropriate to distribute a documentary about the director's personal political views in conjunction with his 5-year-old drama.

"This came out to be a documentary that condemns, basically, war," Warner Bros. spokeswoman Barbara Brogliatti told the newspaper. "This is supposed to be a special edition of 'Three Kings,' not a polemic about war."

Brogliatti said the studio made the decision after seeing the completed documentary, which features interviews with Iraqi refugees and veterans of the current war in Iraq.

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My temp agency called this afternoon to inform me that my site boss did agree to my request for a raise. I asked them what terms were they able to work out, and after being put on hold for about five minutes they came back and told me that they were only able to negotiate for an extra dollar.

I don't know whether to be excited or insulted.

Hey, I have an idea....

Give me a title of a poem, and I'll try to write a poem that somehow fits the title. It can be as general or as specific as you'd like (though extreme specificity can be extremely difficult to process into a poem). I guess I should also say that I generally title my poems after they're written, so this will be a very interesting exercise for me. I'll post results here in the thread.