Why The Press Is Fixated On Anthony Weiner, Mayoral Loser

With the campaign in the home stretch, you might think the national media spotlight would fall on Bill de Blasio, who polls show to be in a commanding position to become New York’s next mayor.

Or perhaps the national press might be taking a closer look at his nearest rivals, Bill Thompson and Christine Quinn.

Nuh uh. It’s still all about Anthony Weiner.

Guess who was on Meet the Press yesterday? Someone who might actually be moving into Gracie Mansion? Nope, Anthony Weiner.

And what did Weiner do to deserve this? He went on a rant after some moron started heckling him at a Jewish bakery in Brooklyn about being “married to an Arab.”

Read More at Fox News . By Howard Kurtz.

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Why The Press Is Fixated On Anthony Weiner, Mayoral Loser

“Computer Chess” director: “I’m fixated on outdated technology”

“Computer Chess” may be the strangest — and most wondrous — film of the year so far, and its director, Andrew Bujalski, doesn’t think it has much to do with chess.

The film takes place at an early-’80s computer-chess tournament, at which different programmers’ chess-playing machines go head to head over the course of a weekend. It takes the form, for much of its running time, of fake found footage from an old video camera, an aesthetic Andrew O’Hehir described as “deliberately unlovely.”

With the tension of actual chess-playing removed from the convention — the machines, until one begins to display an unsettling intelligence, are just acting according to their design, and nothing the programmers do can change the outcome of the tournament now — there’s time for a group of indoor kids to run wild in a depressing motel, taking drugs and wandering upon other folks at the hotel, swingers undergoing a sort of New Age revival meeting.

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“Computer Chess” director: “I’m fixated on outdated technology”