Commentary
Pam Fleischaker
In the spring of 1984, I was a wife and mom, raising a second-grader and a 12-month-old, and working for Planned Parenthood in Oklahoma City.
Sunday 19 May
OKG Newsletter
Topic: Sarah Palin
Geraldine Ferraro and the locked door
Ferraro unlocked the door to the men’s club of politics
Commentary
Pam Fleischaker
In the spring of 1984, I was a wife and mom, raising a second-grader and a 12-month-old, and working for Planned Parenthood in Oklahoma City.
Doc director talks ‘Crossroads’ of an Enid band
Black Canyon performance piece debuts at deadCENTER Film Festival
Features
Joshua Boydston
Musicphiles surely are aware of local videographer Nathan Poppe. From his “on.” series at Oklahoma State University to his current work on “The VDub Sessions,” he has showcased Oklahoma bands
‘Undefeated’ unspooling here
Sarah Palin documentary opens locally
“The Undefeated,” the documentary charting Sarah Palin’s rise from obscurity to national political player, opens locally today, exclusively at AMC Quail Springs Mall 24, 2501 W. Memorial.
Its independent distributor — the doc was not made with Palin’s direct participation — calls it “the year’s most controversial film.” (Wait, doesn’t “Zookeeper” lay claim to that title?) —Rod Lott
I don't want my MTV
CFN
Gazette staff
This time of year, music geeks across the nation are abuzz over one thing and one thing only: year-end lists.
Game Change
Not nearly as good as the book, but vote Moore for the Emmy.
Drama
Rod Lott
Nearly every scene of HBO's telefilm Game Change, I recall from John Heilemann and Mark Halperin's excellent nonfiction book of the same thing. But the movie directed by Jay Roach (of the Austin Powers and Meet the Parents franchises) only tells half — maybe even one-quarter — of the story, ignoring the 2008 presidential-campaign narratives of Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and John Edwards for the one it finds most compelling: that of Sarah Palin and John McCain, and not the other way around.
Iron Sky
The empire Reichs back.
Sci-Fi
Rod Lott
It's 2018, and a U.S. president who looks uncannily like Sarah Palin sends a black man to the moon in a bid for re-election. The American lunar module lands on the dark side of the moon — you know, where the Transformers live — and finds an enormous Nazi outpost that's been there since Hitler's plan for world domination failed.
