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July 29, 2004
Boston | Shawshank Flashback

The pre-acceptance speech video is now playing, which if I understand correctly was “supervised” by Steven Spielberg. It’s narrated by Morgan Freeman, though, and as the opening sequence rolled and Freeman’s voice filled the hall I thought for a moment: “Huh. I didn’t know Kerry was in Shawshank …”



Posted by Alan at July 29, 2004 09:41 PM | TrackBack
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I don’t know if you’ve seen Jay Pinkerton’s News Skim Comics over at Pointlesswasteoftime.com, but he has Morgan Freeman replacing both Kerry and Bush as a candidate because he can make anything sound good. I was laughing out loud when I recognized the voice.

That being said, the film was excellent — superbly done.

Much better, unfortunately, than the live Kerry.

Posted by: DWC [TypeKey Profile Page] at July 29, 2004 11:58 PM

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