L. Mencken and such other lampooners of cant and inauthenticity as Dorothy Parker and W.C.

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There were no celebrations planned yet at the dark bar decorated with combat memorabilia, a framed article announcing the death of Osama bin Laden and a bronze plaque quoting W.C.

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W.C. refuses to act, he and his crew must.

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After his two losers, Jack (Peter Beard) and Leo (Martin Greenbaum), spend seven years courting the same woman, Vera (each has his own version of her, played by different actresses), she runs off with a third man, and her jilted suitors head for the wilderness in raucous despair to live out a survivalist fantasy that joins Mark Twain and Ernest Hemingway to Charlie Chaplin, W. C.

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But the Bush administration's horrible handling of the 2008 financial crisis knocks George W. down to a "C" at best, and then only if the economy recovers in 2009.

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He often photographed actors in character, sometimes in between takes at the film set, and he called the results "personality portraits": W.C.

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