Let's not, and say we did.: Live blog of Democratic debate in Philadelphia

Let's not, and say we did.: Live blog of Democratic debate in Philadelphia

"what are the two movies?

persimmon? periwinkle? something like that.
and designated Something?"

That was Paprika(2006)

"Three scientists at the Foundation for Psychiatric Research fail to secure a device they've invented, the D.C. Mini, which allows people to record and watch their dreams. A thief uses the device to enter people's minds, when awake, and distract them with their own dreams and those of others. Chaos ensues. The trio - Chiba, Tokita, and Shima - assisted by a police inspector and by a sprite named Paprika must try to identify the thief as they ward off the thief's attacks on their own psyches. Dreams, reality, and the movies merge, while characters question the limits of science and the wisdom of Big Brother. "
from the IMDB Link http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0851578/plotsummary

The second was called the Designated Mourner written by wallace shawn(My dinner With Andre)

It was weird to see Mike Nichol the director(The Graduate,Working Girl,Charly Wilson's war)

From Roger Ebert

"Well, is it important to understand the poems of John Donne? I write the question knowing that most people will not be familiar with his poems (although the words ''No man is an island'' may toll a distant bell). Last night at dinner I found myself next to a woman who talked about the novels of Henry James, which filled me with gratitude, and then about Cynthia Ozick's essays about James, which filled me with amazement--because unless you are lucky enough to live on a university campus, you are likely to do most of your serious reading in solitude.

I feel, stubbornly, that it is important to read Donne and the other masters because they have thought and written at the highest level about what it means to be alive, to be conscious of choices, to consider the approach of death, and to turn those subjects into meditations that are sometimes true, false, cheerful, sad, ironic, bitter or hopeful. A great writer engages you in a conversation that you are not likely to be able to have with anyone you know.

But we exist under a daily reprieve. We can choose to read John Donne because we live for the moment in a free, stable society that does not make our reading impossible. War, famine or poverty--the conditions under which most people have always lived--would make reading (not to mention intellectualism) an idle fantasy. ''The Designated Mourner'' is about a society that does not like readers, and most of its words are spoken by a survivor who stands a little outside and looks wryly at what happened to the members of his circle. He chuckles sometimes at the entire foundation of his idea of himself. His all-important, precious ''I'' is, he fears, simply a rummage sale of whatever has been shoveled into his memory over the years."