American - Journalist | February 6, 1941 -
Polanski is a great film director - although the much-acclaimed 'Chinatown' has a muddled script - but his true talent is to make fools of his friends.
Richard Cohen
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It's all right with me if Roman Polanski is freed by the Swiss authorities who have detained him at the request of the United States - if first I get a chance to bust him one in the mouth.
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Harvey Weinstein does not personify American liberalism any more than Bill O'Reilly personifies American conservatism.
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I don't like what George Zimmerman did, and I hate that Trayvon Martin is dead. But I also can understand why Zimmerman was suspicious and why he thought Martin was wearing a uniform we all recognize.
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Every rippling muscle is a book not read, a movie not seen, or a conversation not held.
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Maybe the best example of the unmuscled hero is Humphrey Bogart in 'Casablanca.' Bogart was 15 years older than Ingrid Bergman, and it did not matter at all. He had the experience, the confidence, the internal strength that can only come with age.
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Republicans remain silent because Trump is doing what they want - lowering taxes on the rich, eviscerating regulations, bulldozing the environment, and insisting that a woman's body is not her own.
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It is not true that Trump is nobody's fool. He is the GOP's.
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I am not a German bitter-ender. I am, though, a German never-forgetter.
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In my several visits to Germany, I have written in admiration of that country's strenuous efforts to face its past and make amends.
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Germany's crimes were recent and of such a scale and depravity that, unless constantly faced, they will come to seem fictitious.
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Pence is the very personification of the career politician. With the exception of a few years doing talk radio and television shows, he has done nothing but run for office, winning all but the first two times.
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