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Roger Ebert responds to a critic, a mother of a 14-year-old. According to a local news story, she pays attention to the son's movie reviews now, not Ebert's. Says the Sun-Times critic: "I am writing you in the hope of saving your friends, your sister Jasmine, and your mother Toni from going to see a truly dismal new movie. It is called 'A Cinderella Story,' and they may think they'll like it because it stars Hilary Duff."
David Letterman's Late Show offers the Top Ten Ways To Make The All-Star Game More Exciting. (In other All-Star Game news, I failed to watch the game.)
CNN.com recruits a student reporter at the University of Pennsylvania to write about frat boys' opinions on the upcoming presidential election. Inebriated at least by the weight of tradition, the boys turn to central casting.
"I think I would rather have Kerry hold my feet during a keg stand because, let's face it, you need… someone responsible to do something like that," Penn junior Patrick Carroll said.
"You wouldn't want to fall and chip your teeth on the keg or something, and I could just picture 'college-era' Bush seeing a hot girl across the room and dropping everything he was doing to go talk to her," the Kappa Alpha brother said.
"That's not the only reason I'm voting for Kerry, but it sure doesn't hurt," he added.
