Time for "The Times" To Weigh in on DeLay Doc

Yesterday's New York Times' Arts & Leisure section had a small piece on a movie we've written since last summer--and just about every week since we started this danged blog. Stephanie Goodman asked: What becomes of local filmmakers Mark Birnbaum and Jim Schermbeck's movie The Big Buy: How Tom DeLay...

By Robert Wilonsky

April 10, 2006

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Yesterday's New York Times' Arts & Leisure section had a small piece on a movie we've written since last summer--and just about every week since we started this danged blog. Stephanie Goodman asked: What becomes of local filmmakers Mark Birnbaum and Jim Schermbeck's movie The Big Buy: How Tom DeLay Stole Congress now that the Sugarland Republican has called it quits? The answer: Keep kickin' the man while he is down. --Robert Wilonsky

Robert Wilonsky

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