Poster J.J. Abrams’ SUPER 8

The superb first full trailer for J.J. Abrams’ Super 8 hit the web early today, and now a new poster has been unveiled. Written and directed by Abrams, the film centers on a group of youngsters in a small Ohio town in 1979 who, while using a Super 8 camera to make their own zombie movie, catch a glimpse of a mysterious, inhuman something emerging from the wreckage of a train derailment. The poster expertly conveys the tone portrayed in the trailers. With Steven Spielberg as a producer, it’s no surprise that this is shaping up to be a sort of throwback to his sci-fi films of the 80′s (E.T., Close Encounters of the Third Kind). It’s safe to say I’m decidedly ecstatic to see this film.

Super 8 stars Elle Fanning, Kyle Chandler, Zach Mills, Noah Emmerich, Ron Eldard, and Amanda Michalka. The film opens later this year on June 10th. Hit the jump to check out the poster.

Here’s the poster for Super 8 (via Apple). Click to enlarge:

Here’s the official synopsis:

In the summer of 1979, a group of friends in a small Ohio town witness a catastrophic train crash while making a super 8 movie and soon suspect that it was not an accident. Shortly after, unusual disappearances and inexplicable events begin to take place in town, and the local Deputy tries to uncover the truth – something more terrifying than any of them could have imagined.

Santorum should have said

By now you’ve probably heard that Rick Santorum launched his doomed presidential campaign the other day with a slogan, “Fighting to Make America America Again,” that bears a striking similarity to a Langston Hughes poem, “Let America be America Again.”

How did Rick Santorum react to the news that his campaign slogan was lifted from a black, gay, pro-union, pro-immigration poet?

Two words: gay panic.

Santorum, a Republican, spoke at an “ECON-101″ Town Hall meeting-style event Thursday sponsored by the Center for Civic Engagement at New England College. The event is part of a series at the college that brings political candidates to the school to discuss America’s economic future.

Santorum by and large stayed on message but was tripped up a bit when a student asked him if he knew that the choice of his slogan, “Fighting to make America America again,” was borrowed from the “pro-union poem by the gay poet Langston Hughes.”

“No I had nothing to do with that,” Santorum said. “I didn’t know that. And the folks who worked on that slogan for me didn’t inform me that it came from that, if it in fact came from that.”

The student, whose name was not immediately available, was referring to the poem “Let America Be America Again.” When asked a short time later what the campaign slogan meant to him, Santorum said, “well, I’m not too sure that’s my campaign slogan, I think it’s on a web site.”

To which I say: what a dick. It took this dude about three fucking seconds to disavow his own campaign slogan because he was told it sounded gay. This is a grown man, a man who wants to serve as the public face of America, a man who seeks to represent America to a world in which white fundamentalist Christians are the minority, and this is the cowardly, craven manner in which he responds to the news that something he said sorta, kinda sounds like something a – gasp – left-wing homosexual once said? And then to fob it all off as something that’s just “on a website” when you know damn well he spent more cash vetting that slogan than America spends annually on bacon and energy drinks combined. Good lord, Rick, grow a pair.

So let’s rewind and try that again. Rick, for future reference, maybe something like this?

When a student asked Santorum if he knew that his slogan, “Fighting to make America America again,” was borrowed from the “pro-union poem by the gay poet Langston Hughes,” Santorum expressed surprise, but then quickly added, “Obviously, this thought is not new. It expresses a deep yearning by Americans to return to the foundations upon which this great nation was built. While I don’t personally agree with the political beliefs that underlay Mr. Hughes’ poetry, I celebrate the vibrant diversity of this great nation, which not only made his writing possible but also leaves room for my disagreement.”

Santorum then added, “And whatever you do, don’t Google my name.”

Rick Santorum Biography new

Rick Santorum Biography – Biographyzone.com. John Richard (Rick) Santorum (born 1958) is a member of the Republican Party and was a senator from Pennsylvania in the United States Congress from 1995 to 2007. Born May 10, 1958 in Winchester, Va., graduated in political science, Santorum has participated in political campaigns of John Heinz before launching himself into the quarry.

Rick Santorum Profile

Rick Santorum

In office January 3, 1995 – January 3, 2007
Preceded by	Harris Wofford
Succeeded by	Bob Casey, Jr.
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania’s 18th district
In office January 3, 1991 – January 3, 1995
Preceded by	Doug Walgren
Succeeded by	Mike Doyle
Born	May 10, 1958 (1958-05-10) (age 53) Winchester, Virginia
Political party	Republican
Spouse(s)	Karen Garver Santorum
Residence	Penn Hills, Pennsylvania
Alma mater	Pennsylvania State University University of Pittsburgh Dickinson School of Law
Occupation	Attorney
Religion	Roman Catholic

Rick Santorum Career History
In 1990, aged only 32 years, Santorum comes in colors Republican in the House of Representatives of the United States and was elected against the Democrat incumbent. In November 1994 he was elected with the wave Republican senator from Pennsylvania in the United States Senate, defeating Harris Wofford, the outgoing Senator.

It participates actively in the side of Trent Lott and Newt Gingrich to reform the health system in 1996. In 2000, Rick Santorum is favored at the renewal of its mandate by 61% of voters. Member of fundamentalist Christian group The Family, Santorum owes its fame to extremely conservative positions, particularly in its fight against abortion.

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Supporter of the sacredness of life and its preservation, Santorum did vote during the 107th Congress, the “Born-Alive Infants Protection Act and, in the 108th Congress manages to impose a ban of some form of abortion, it is true disputed even by liberals, like abortion procedure partial (partial-birth abortion), signed by George W. Bush.

His other aims combat the AIDS pandemic but his homophobic statements do not help his reputation. During the controversy over gay marriage, he does not hesitate to put homosexuals on an equal footing with the bigamous, incestuous and zoophiles, speaking and even bestiality condemns sodomy. This has resulted in retaliation for the emergence of a new term with sexual overtones in his name: Santorum (sexual slang)

Practicing Catholic, once irreducible supporter of the death penalty, he now wants to limit the application of the latter as some categories of crime.

If he had been seen as a possible candidate for the Republican primary by conservative branch of the party, Santorum announced July 7, 2005 that he preferred to concentrate on his Senate reelection campaign in 2006, that arise in 2008 primaries republican. Rightly so because during the election campaign, he has ceased to be ahead in the polls by his opponent, Democrat Bob Casey Jr. Conservative

In the elections of November 7, 2006, Santorum was finally beaten with just 41% of the vote against 59% for Bob Casey Jr. In December 2006, the last days of the session of Congress, he was one of only two senators to vote against confirmation of Robert Gates as Secretary of Defense for protest against criticism of the latter on the management war in Iraq and the proposed Gates to discuss with countries like Iran.

In March 2007, Santorum was hired as legal counsel for a large corporate law firm in Pittsburgh and Washington DC. Also a member of the Center on Ethics and Public Policy, a conservative think tank in Washington, he also became a regular political commentator on the news channel Fox News. Rick Santorum is the father of 7 children, one of whom died in infancy.

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