For those desperately searching for a silver lining...

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here's an interesting and persuasive article about the possibility of some decent movies coming out of the Chimp Dynasty.

http://www.villagevoice.com/film/0502,kaufman,59945,20.html

Living in Oblivion
Reagan-era callousness sparked an indie film renaissance. Will Bush II inspire another?
by Anthony Kaufman

While George W. Bush is being inaugurated in Washington, D.C., next Thursday, the annual Sundance Film Festival will kick off in Park City, Utah. The two events may seem unrelated, but as we saw in 2004, American politics and independent cinema go hand in hand.

Of course, indie powerhouses The Passion of the Christ and Fahrenheit 9/11 represent the most partisan products of the contentious last 12 months, but as we enter Bush's second term, the country's extreme rightward turn could ignite the type of movie renaissance not seen since eight years of nuclear proliferation, HIV discrimination, and materialist greed helped produce the American independent film movement of the late '80s and early '90s. If the careers of Todd Haynes, Spike Lee, and Steven Soderbergh were all launched during the Reagan-Bush regime, imagine what's possible over the next four years.

edited to add a chunk of the article