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12 Apr, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Stallone's best movie is Victory, in which he plays a scrappy American POW who escapes from a German camp; allows himself to be recaptured so he can help others escape; then stays & leads Allied "soccer" team in a heroic tie against Nazis; and then escapes anyway.
A sweaty Michael Caine runs around and keeps telling Pele what to do.
It's the Rocky of World War II soccer movies.
Magic.

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It's funny that one of the examples he offers in this piece -- filled with lies about the GA law -- I wrote not for NR but for *The Washington Post.*
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17 Mar
You simply can't read a book about a rock band in the 1970s where the members weren't sleeping with young teenagers. Why aren't we canceling these people? I will join any campaign that helps stop "classic rock" from being played in supermarkets etc.
Most of it should have been canceled for sucking.
I hear another Doobie Brothers or Bad Company song I am going to lose it.
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8 Mar
It's the least racist country in the world.
I'm working on a book that makes this argument. Europe, for instance, is by every measure a worse place for minorities.
coming in fall. amazon.com/Eurotrash-Amer…
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