Speaking of name-checking coupled with film, my preferred theorist is excerpted in Slacker director's animating Waking Life. Andre Bazin, I believe, is the sole person featured who devoted his lifework strictly to writing about film.

Paris is already there.

Soon we were segueing into how many hours of television Americans watch per day and how most of TV is rot.

So let's say I wouldn't have been surprised if he's been reading "The Culture Industry."

Fun fact: During the 2000 campaign, Gore repeatedly expressed his admiration for French phenomenologist Maurice Merleau-Ponty.

Such a banquet would hardly feature any type of condiment, whether it be lowbrow A-1 steak sauce or like, I don't know, bearnaise sauce or whatever.

So it still isn't clear to me if Annie Wagner thinks Gore isn't running because his manner was professorial and statesmanlike, or if he isn't running because his criticisms of those (George W. Bush & Co.) who lack Reason are so cutting.

Regardless, the correct answer is that Gore will run, and further, he will win. My confidence in that grows with ever Stranger pundit who says otherwise, among other reasons.