Laura Bush

Banks swings into stardom with 'W.,' 'Zack and Miri'

Leading lady: Elizabeth Banks, foreground, plays Laura Bush in Oliver Stone's W. opposite Josh Brolin's President Bush, center. Looking up: Seth Rogen and Elizabeth Banks are slackers with an interesting plan to make money in...

Devastated Kan. Town Now A "Green" Model

Greensburg, Kan., Rebuilding From Scratch After Tornado, Goes Green In A Big Way On April 28, 2008, almost a year after an F5 tornado devastated the town of Greensburg, Kan., there were signs of new life, new construction and a...

W.: History and Psychology from Oliver Stone

27-Oct-2008

Oliver Stone’s W. has received considerable praise in the national media for offering a surprisingly complex and rather sympathetic portrait of the adult life of George W. Bush (Stone calls the cinematic treatment “empathetic”...

Pandora: Second invitation not on cards for this First Lady

The actress Elizabeth Banks struck many as an unusual choice to play Laura Bush in Oliver Stone's new biopic, W – bubbly, blonde and the star of Zack and Miri Make a Porno, she is a far cry from America's prim schoolteacher of...

American Wife by Curtis Sittenfeld, review

James Miller reviews a fictionalised re-telling of the life of Laura Bush Many writers have used fiction to challenge and complicate our understanding of political and historical events. Unfortunately, American Wife, a...

Pandora: Literary blow-up a one-sided affair

Literary rows are often explosive, so it was surprising to spot the following letter in the current affairs magazine Prospect. Beginning "Dear Sirs, I wish to attack myself for something I wrote," the letter's author, novelist...

MAX HASTINGS: Bush's stupid ways have made the U.S. more hated than ever... and it's cost McCain...

Bush's stupid, brutish ways have made the U.S. more hated than ever... and it's cost McCain the election Meet the losers. Take a look at the shrinking band of unhappy, even embittered Americans who plan to vote for John McCain...

Elizabeth Banks swings into stardom with 'W.,' 'Zack and Miri'

Leading lady: Elizabeth Banks, foreground, plays Laura Bush in Oliver Stone's W. opposite Josh Brolin's President Bush, center. Looking up: Seth Rogen and Elizabeth Banks are slackers with an interesting plan to make money in...