“Someone pointed me to Charlie Wilson’s War the other day. My response was that it was Charlie Wilson’s war that gave birth to the Taliban we know as an enemy today. It was Charlie Wilson’s War that justified building up and training young men to fight the Soviets without any thought or regard to what

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Ok so according to Summit Entertainment – the same wonderful people who’ve given us the lamentable Twilight and its lamentable sequel – there’s a “re-imagined” version of Highlander the original Highlander in the offing.  But back in 1986 Frenchman Christopher Lambert, a played Scot Conner MacLeod … Scot Sean Connery played well Sean Connery aka