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"Ebert & Roeper" to air early-bird preview of "Passion" posted by tvbarn on February 18, 2004 04:03 PM FILM CRITICS ROGER EBERT AND RICHARD ROEPER TO AIR EXCLUSIVE EARLY REVIEW OF THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST ON “EBERT & ROEPER,” FEBRUARY 21-22, 2004 After months of intense controversy that reached all the way to the Vatican, this weekend America’s most prominent film critics, Roger Ebert and Richard Roeper, are set to air an exclusive early review of the completed version of Mel Gibson's new film The Passion of the Christ. This special edition of "Ebert & Roeper" will air in...

You'd think the political media as well as operatives for the Democratic and Republican parties would have learned two valuable lessons from Bill Clinton's election victories: 1. Sexual high jinks, real or alleged, do not necessarily doom a candidate. In 1992 and in 1996, tens of millions of Americans probably agreed with the GOP assessment of Clinton as a horny, rutting pig -- and yet they voted for him anyway, because they didn't think his sexual habits had that much relevance to his strengths as a world leader. 2. Military history (or the lack thereof) probably won't be the determining...