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In the 1972 movie, 'The Candidate', Robert Redford plays the part of Bill McKay, a Senate Candidate who wins a crucial election in a huge upset.

In the movie "The Candidate," political newcomer Bill McKay, played by Robert Redford, turns to a campaign adviser after winning an upset election victory over an incumbent U.S. senator and asks plaintively: "What do we do now?" Gov.-elect Chris Christie is presenting a brave face, but it would be understandable if he's privately asking himself and ...

It's amazing to go back and read what people were saying about Timothy Geithner in the spring.

As George Wallace presumably faded into the sunset, Fob James took the reigns of Alabama state government in January of 1979.

There's an interesting item on the Editor and Publisher blog about an upcoming event at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, a Robert Redford retrospective that will include a showing of " All the President's Men" followed by a panel discussion with Redford, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein.

Robert Redford is visiting the land of Lincoln. The hyphenate with an acute interest in political topics will direct the historical drama "The Conspirator," the story of Mary Surratt, alleged conspirator of Abraham Lincoln assassin John Wilkes Booth.

On several different occasions during the past presidential campaign I made the following observation: What a fascinating show future president Obama is putting on! It will be even more fascinating to discover whether he is: a) Jimmy Stewart, in Mr.

Holy crap.A There's a news item today that's not Comic-Con-related .A THR is reporting that Sam Worthington has signed on to star in the remake of the recent Danish thriller "The Candidate" which is good because we really don't need a remake of the 1972 Robert Redford film .

I just learned a long time ago to accept a little less from life, that's all. --Bruce Dern, as a beauty pageant patron in the 1975 film Smile Michael Ritchie wasn't accepting anything less from life 35 years ago this week--at least not yet anyway.