Presidents, 10/23.

"Harrison Ford, who played a US president fighting airplane hijackers in 1997's Air Force One topped a list of fictional movie presidents people would most like to lead the US, according to a poll released on Thursday by AOL's Moviefone.com Web site." Jill Serjeant reports for Reuters. #2 (and she's got the full list): Morgan Freeman in Deep Impact.

Via Joe Leydon, Daniel Craig: "Obama would be the better Bond because - if he's true to his word - he'd be willing to quite literally look the enemy in the eye and go toe-to-toe with them. McCain, because of his long service and experience, would probably be a better M... There is, come to think of it, a kind of Judi Dench quality to McCain."

"It's not often that you can get t-shirts designed by major figures of world cinema," notes Doug Cummings, "and even less often for a better cause: Chris Marker invokes his trademark character, Guillaume-en-egypte, for Barack Obama at Wexner Center for the Arts."

"Obama tugs at the imagination in such a way as to make other storylines seem plastic," writes Max Goldberg. "Four years ago the left was rallied more by a movie (Fahrenheit 9/11) than an actual candidate; now people just seem baffled by another cinematic recitation of GW's sins. Oliver Stone's frenzied style of psycho-historiography may be well-suited to #43, but his countermyth isn't this season's top ticket. One political film that has been humming in my mind watching Obama's campaign is John Gianvito's Profit motive and the whispering wind."

"[W]ith W., Stone has accomplished something I would've thought impossible: He made me feel sorry for this miserable son of a bitch." Sean Burns in the Philadelphia Weekly. More from Nathan Gelgud (Independent Weekly), Andrew Schenker and David Walsh (WSWS).

"I can't take much more of this," writes Larry David at the Huffington Post. "Two weeks to go, and I'm at the end of my rope."

John Rogers follows up a couple of recent entries with "Hollywood Conservatives: The Thoughtful Post."

"The latest issue of Tales From the Crypt (inspired by the 1950s EC Comic of the same name) features Vice Presidential Candidate Sarah Palin wielding a hockey stick at the Crypt's storytelling inhabitants," notes C Jerry Kutner at Bright Lights After Dark.

Online viewing tip. Ted Johnson has Ron Howard's (and Andy Griffith's and Henry Winkler's) Obama endorsement for Funny or Die.

Online viewing tips. From Coudal Partners: "Talked about this morning and now in the queue to see again soon: the trailer for Bob Roberts. And here's one of his campaign commercials." Also: Radar's collection of current campaign ads from across the country.

Posted by dwhudson at October 23, 2008 10:49 AM